THE MINING POD: Hut 8, Crusoe’s $600M, DCG’s Fortitude, Riot’s HODL and Coinbase’s PNUT
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hyperscalers are coming to Bitcoin mining. Actually, it's the other way around!
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! In today’s show were ripping on Hut 8’s $12 billion build out in Louisiana for a full hyperscaler facility. Yes, that’s nearly 6x the marketcap of Hut 8 currently! We also go into Crusoe’s $600M raise from Founders Fund, our scoop on DCG spinning out Foundry’s self-mining assets, Riot joining the HODL gang with Microstrategy and MARA and some final thoughts on Coinbase listing random tokens for ‘just the funsies.’ Oh, also Texas is going to do a Bitcoin Reserve!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:54 Difficulty update
04:29 Hut 8 plans 1,000 MW in Louisiana
10:19 Crusoe Closes $600M Raise
13:35 DCG creates new company
18:56 Riot Offering of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes
27:52 Coinbase lists Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) memcoin
33:20 Texas Bitcoin Reserve
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the Mining Pod. |
| 0:02.0 | We're doing the news roundup live this week. |
| 0:04.0 | And it's just Matt and I, like old times. |
| 0:06.0 | Matt, how you doing? |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, I'm doing well. |
| 0:09.0 | Never been live before. |
| 0:10.0 | It's like a rush. |
| 0:11.0 | I never felt. |
| 0:12.0 | It's crazy. |
| 0:13.0 | It is a rush. |
| 0:14.0 | I did a live show at the CoinDest career almost three years. |
| 0:17.0 | So it's actually my native format. We've been doing it more at the mining |
| 0:22.9 | pot because there's been so much breaking news, which is today. There's like a billion |
| 0:28.6 | headlines we could certainly choose from. So we're going to rock with a bunch today. |
| 0:34.3 | Are you retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies? |
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| 0:42.1 | operations to know who stands out. |
| 0:44.3 | Check out visualized metrics and data-dependent stories at theminermag.com. |
| 0:48.8 | Thanks for listening to The Mining Pod. |
| 0:50.8 | Want more? |
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| 0:56.0 | for another weekly show on Bitcoin stocks. |
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