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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Bitcoin experienced its first difficulty adjustment after the Bitcoin halving, giving some breathing room to much belabored Bitcoin miners.
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In this week’s Mining Pod, Will and Matt dig into Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including: difficulty dropping 5.5%, Arkansas putting restrictions around Bitcoin mining and large Bitcoin miners pivoting into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
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00:00:00 Start
00:02:07 Hashrate go down
00:06:35 Texas grid spikes
00:10:57 Canaan Avalon A15
00:17:26 Arkansas hates noise & communists
00:25:01 Miners pivot to AI infrastructure
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0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to The Mining Pod. I'm joined by Matt Kimmel of Coinchairs and myself, Will Foxley |
0:06.0 | of Blockspace Media. Charlie Spears is off this week. He is in Hong Kong for Bitcoin Asia, |
0:12.6 | having some great conversations and panels over there. So we look forward to seeing Charlie again |
0:16.7 | next week. We're going to start with difficulty drop, then go over to Texas and talk about how |
0:22.0 | starting heating up down Texas, which has implications with Bitcoin mining down there. |
0:26.9 | Then go over, talk about A6, Canaan or Kanan, how you want to say it, just announced a new unit. |
0:32.9 | We'll finish up with Arkansas's mining bill. |
0:35.6 | It's happening over there, a little geopolitical storylines, |
0:38.2 | and finished with some AI pressure, AI pressure meaning like these AI guys. They want the same |
0:46.0 | rack space as Bitcoin miners. So we're going to dig into that. What a lineup. Yeah, what a lineup. |
0:50.8 | The so-called light week in the space. It was kind of a light week. |
0:54.7 | It felt like a light week. |
0:56.2 | And then you read in some of these stories, they're actually pretty important ones under |
0:58.9 | the water. |
0:59.5 | And that's what we cover here. |
1:01.0 | That's what we're about. |
1:02.2 | We're not going to show your mining stock. |
1:03.8 | We're not going to make you feel good about your investment. |
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