THE MINING POD: Crusoe / Upstream Data Patent Ruling, Lancium’s Stargate Deal, and 2024 Year-in-Review

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For this week’s mining news, a surprising decision on Crusoe and Upstream Data’s patent dispute and more. Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the gang covers news that Blockspace broke regarding a surprising mixed decision in Crusoe and Upstream Data’s patent dispute. Plus, Lancium gets in on the Project Stargate action with a 1.2 GW AI campus, a data recap from Hashrate Index’s 2024 Year-in-Review, and TSMC is fabbing ASIC chips for Bitdeer’s SEALMINER series in the U.S.A. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, scammers hijack Riot Platform’s X account to lure folks into the Solana memecoin casino. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:28 Difficulty report 05:36 Crusoe & Upstream 14:54 Lancium’s Project Stargate Deal 27:34 Hashrate Index 2024 Year-in-Review 45:36 TSMC US fabbed chips for Bitdeer 51:34 Cry corner: Riot Hack 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! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show! Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And Luxor Tech, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:49.7	Welcome back to the mining pod, y'all.
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1:00.7	Khan of Luxor, Khan Farani.
1:03.2	He's going to give us a wonderful presentation from his 2024 year and review.
1:08.1	We've got a lot of other news items on the docket today. Pretty juicy week,
1:12.2	gentlemen. We've got a ruling in the Caruso in upstream patent dispute. We've got a fat
1:20.1	gigawatt deal with Lancium in Childress, Texas. We've got TSM, apparently, reportedly, going to fabricate chips for bit deer on
1:32.2	U.S. soil at their Arizona plant. And for this week's cry corner, riot launching a meme coin on
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