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
⏱️ 35 minutes
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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
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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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