THE MINING POD: EPA Slashes Regulations, Canaan Secures $200M, CoreWeave's OpenAI Deal and NYDIG's Mawson Beef

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

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All your Bitcoin mining news in 30 minutes or less! You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 8,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Want to mine Bitcoin? Check out the Blockspace Media store today! Welcome to The Mining Pod! Matt Kimmell and Will cover the week's biggest stories in Bitcoin mining. We analyze the challenging hashprice environment for miners (hitting all-time lows at $42/hash), discuss the EPA's major deregulation announcement and its potential impact on energy markets, break down Canaan's $200M funding for US expansion, examine CoreWeave's massive $11.9B OpenAI deal ahead of its IPO, and dive into the drama between NYDIG and Mawson over allegedly stolen Bitcoin miners worth $30M. Notes: Hash price at all-time low of $42 per hash per @luxor EPA launching 31 deregulatory actions for energy Canaan secured $200M for US mining expansion CoreWeave signed $11.9B OpenAI contract Nydig claims Mawson stole $30M worth of miners Timestamps: 00:00 Start 07:21 EPA to slash regulation 14:03 Canaan $200M in financing 20:41 CoreWeave & OpenAI sign deal 28:50 Cry corner: Stone Ridge & Mawson $30M Theft 👉 CleanSpark (CLSK), America’s Bitcoin Miner! Cleanspark develops infrastructure for Bitcoin, an essential tool for financial independence and inclusion. Learn more by visiting https://www.cleanspark.com/! 👉 Digital Shovel, All Things Crypto Mining! Are you a Crypto miner looking to expand your operations leading into this next Bull Market? Digital Shovel is a leading manufacturer of modular mining pods, as well as PDUs & Switchgears. Industry leading prices starting at $69,000/MW for a complete datacenter, including Smart PDUs and switchgear. For more information, visit www.DigitalShovel.com 👉 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. 👉 Nicehash, Hashrate, Bitcoin payments and mining! NiceHash is the world leading hashrate marketplace providing a full suite of tools and software for miners to optimize their operations. Based in Switzerland, NiceHash is a fully regulated crypto mining platform. 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! 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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0:00.0	Okay, Matthew, welcome back to the News Roundup. As always, Matt Kimmel and myself on the stream.
0:10.0	Colin is on Pat Leave. Charlie's not here. She's just you and I like old times. Welcome back to the show.
0:16.5	Thanks for having me. I feel like I'm in a time machine. Like, who'll have two, three years back.
0:22.3	I do miss those. Sometimes I go back and look at those thumbnails that, you know, I both got just wrecked on week in and week out.
0:29.8	Never looking good. So many things we found love, to be honest.
0:35.0	I'm glad you hired a new thumbnail artist.
0:37.8	I'll just, I'll put it that way.
0:39.3	The new thumbnail artist is me.
0:41.3	Hey, this is Will with Blockspace.
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