THE MINING POD: Hive’s Paraguay Acquisition, BTC Miner ETF, Hashrate for Charity, and DeepSeek

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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For this week’s news roundup, a new Bitcoin-related ETF emerges, plus a breakdown of DeepSeek. Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin and Matt are back for this week’s news roundup. They touch on Hive’s $85 million, 200 MW acquisition of a Yguazu, Paraguay bitcoin mine from Bitfarms. Plus, Grayscale launches a bitcoin miner ETF, a home-mining device wins a $330,000 bitcoin block for charity, and why the market freaked out over DeepSeek this week. And for this week’s cry corner, why you shouldn't trust Brad Garlinghouse’s call for crypto unity. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:57 Difficulty report 18:28 Grayscale miner ETF 33:26 Hashrate Fundraiser Mines Block 37:28 DeepSeek 43:36 Cry corner: Ripple CEO Very Sad 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	What's up, y'all? Welcome back to the Mining Pod for this week's news roundup. You got your boy Matt Kimmel here and your boy Colin Harper. Matt, how we doing today, man?
0:59.8	Excellent. Wonderful day to talk mining news. Yeah, it's a interesting week. A lot of pretty cool stories in the lineup, like all across the board from institutional stuff to kind of like a heartwarming story about donated hash rate.
1:16.4	So we've got the usual with a difficulty update.
1:20.0	We've got a note on Hives acquisition that is pending for BitFarm's Igasu 200 megawatt facility in Paraguay. We've got a note on
1:30.8	gray scale launching a Bitcoin miner ETF. ETF's always hot. Seems like we're going to continue
1:36.2	to financialize every aspect of the Bitcoin industry. We have a hosting update from our friend
1:41.2	Karun McIntyrie from Compass. We've got the heartwarming story, which is
1:47.8	first ever Bitcoin Hashrate fundraiser, mine's full block for non-profit, which was concurrent
1:52.5	with the Nashville Energy Summit that's currently going on, and which is why our boy, Will
1:56.9	Foxley, is not with us. He abandoned us for the bustle and boom of Nashville.
2:01.4	And then we have a quick note on DeepSeek from an article that I wrote for this week's
2:06.1	newsletter on the mining pod. Not really news so much. It's just kind of second day analysis.
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