THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining Stocks Vibe Rankings: 2025 Year-End Edition

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

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For today’s roundup, the Blockspace team shares their year-end 2025 rankings for bitcoin mining stocks. Click here to create your own rankings and share them with us on X by tagging @blockspace! Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, and Charlie are back with another (in)famous Vibe Rankings for Bitcoin Mining Stocks. For bitcoin mining stocks, 2025 was a year defined by aggressive expansion in the AI sector, but some miners have been more fruitful with their endeavors than others. For today’s roundup, the team dives into our 2025 year-end rankings for the top bitcoin mining stocks, which includes some spirited debate about who belongs in what tier – and whether or not any bitcoin mining stock earned an S rank in 2025. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Timestamps: 00:00 Start 09:08 Vibe Ranking 12:39 Canaan (CAN) 16:09 Cipher Mining (CIFR) 20:55 Hive (HIVE) 26:26 American Bitcoin (ABTC) 34:31 BitFUFU (BITF) 39:04 Marathon (MARA) 44:53 Hut 8 (HUT) 49:40 Cango (CANG) 53:40 Bitfarms (BITF) 57:20 Core Scientific (CORZ) 1:02:52 Bitdeer (BTDR) 1:08:53 IREN (IREN) 1:12:53 RIOT (RIOT) 1:15:15 Terawulf (WULF) 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!

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0:00.0	We've got a special edition to close out the year with some vibe rankings of publicly listed Bitcoin mining and AI companies.
0:07.8	Can go.
0:08.8	A tough one.
0:11.1	They destroyed investor trust earlier this year when they sold a lot of founder shares and the stock price cratered.
0:19.7	It's going to be hard for that to come back.
0:22.5	If I'm looking at Mara, they have one of the highest hash costs and one of the highest executive
0:27.8	comps in the industry. American Bitcoin has been an interesting story. They announced a launch.
0:33.4	They also did a pipe deal. Piped deals exist for a reason. But if there are not proper disclosures and investors are not aware, you risk quite literally
0:42.3	murdering your stock price.
0:45.4	Guys, there is a serious problem right now in Bitcoin mining.
0:48.6	We need to talk about it.
0:49.9	You need to pay attention to this.
0:51.7	Bitcoin miners are identifying as AI companies and people keep
0:55.8	mis-sectoring them because they say, well, look, your infrastructure is clearly for Bitcoin
1:00.6	mining. What do you want me to do about it? I'm going to tell you what you need to do. You need to call
1:05.2	F-box, the leading digital infrastructure company with all encompassing cooling solutions.
1:11.7	F-box designs industry-leading air, hydro, and emerging cooling systems for Bitcoin mining and
1:16.5	AI and HBC data centers. I want to highlight that. If you're a Bitcoin miner who needs to bridge
1:20.5	the gap, if you're pivoting or doing hybrid operations, they can build cooling solutions
1:25.7	and infrastructure for both your Bitcoin mining and your AI and HBC operations.
1:30.5	And they have an in-house API that lets you monitor it from the web or on mobile.
1:35.5	So go to www.fbox.fx.com.combeck backslash contact to learn how FBOx can help you optimize your digital infrastructure today.
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