THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin’s Mining Revenue Model Broken?

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Our guest, Cormint CEO James McAvity, makes the case that Bitcoin’s low transaction fees should raise concerns. Get the headlines that matter, right when they hit the wire: Join our Telegram group for market moving news on top Bitcoin equities like $MSTR, $MARA, $RIOT, $CLSK, and more: https://t.me/blockspacenews Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, James McAvity, CEO of bitcoin miner Cormint, joins us to talk about a potential, looming existential crisis for Bitcoin: low transaction fee revenue. With transaction fees at only 2% of mining revenue, McAvity argues the current model is unsustainable as rewards halve every four years. Subscribe to our newsletter! **Notes:** • Transaction fees: 1/50th of total block rewards • 20GW mining capacity running 24/7 globally • 70 basis points: current annual BTC issuance • $30-50K: cost per gigawatt hour electricity • 2036: block rewards drop to 8 basis points • $20T: potential future Bitcoin market cap Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:32 Is mining cooked? 08:05 Interpreting Satoshi's Goals 13:17 Hot mess or solid roadmap? 20:46 Cleanspark 21:15 Fees in a money protocol 25:44 truested intermediaries 31:42 Monero attack 38:39 Longterm bearish on mining? 44:59 What to do? 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner!®, is a market-leading, pure play Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. They own a fully self-operated portfolio of mining facilities across the U.S. powered by globally competitive energy prices. CleanSpark sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship to monetize low-cost, high reliability energy while securing the most important finite, global asset – Bitcoin. 👉 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. 👉 Colorado Air Filter, Leaders In Mining HVAC Solutions! Pick from 6 different filtration brands from MERV 8 pleats to HEPA filters. Get your mine in top shape before the heat and dust of this summer comes! Contact sales@coloradoairfilter.com 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!

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0:00.0	Getting up and giving a somewhat bearish forecast of the future of the industry that you're in can be stupid, can be considered a bad decision.
0:10.9	I was hopeful that my talk would reach people who share my opinions and stimulate some discussions about how we could be more proactive about this.
0:18.4	My goal in giving the talk was to really emphasize where
0:21.6	I think Bitcoin needs to go to attempt to try to shift the political consensus using data.
0:27.0	The risk in the talk would be that I come across as a whiny miner. I think, you know,
0:31.0	no matter what, there are some people in our industry who would see it that way.
0:36.4	You ever get into your buddy's car and think, dude, how do you live like this?
0:40.5	There's half-eaten Taco Bell on the console, a pile of garbage and fast food cups and bags,
0:47.5	rumbling in the trunk, you look behind you under your seat and you're pretty sure you saw
0:51.8	something move, but you don't know what?
0:53.9	Well, how do you think your Bitcoin miner feels if you're not keeping on top of your
0:57.9	filtration game? Y'all need to get on Colorado Air Filters.
1:02.2	Colorado Air Filters is a major supplier of air filtration systems for Bitcoin mining sites.
1:07.4	And they're currently running a summer sale in their inventory, so now is the time to act.
1:11.7	Whether you need HEPA filters, new shipments or installations for your containers or your
1:17.0	large-scale mining facilities, retrofitted buildings, Colorado Air Filters has it all. And units are
1:22.6	ready to sell now. Contact sales at Coloradoairfilter.com and use the code mining pod to claim 15%
1:29.2	off today. Again, that is sales
1:31.1	at Coloradoairfilter.com
1:33.1	with code mining pod.
1:40.9	Hey, Will here with
1:42.1	Blockspace Media. Did you know
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