THE MINING POD: Operation Red Sunset, the White House’s Genesis Mission, Tether Buys BTDR, RAM Prices Soar

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week in bitcoin mining news, the Department of Homeland Security is targeting Bitmain with Operation Red Sunset, and Tether buys more shares of Bitdeer. Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Charlie break down Operation Red Sunset—the US government's probe into Bitmain over national security concerns. We also cover brutal mining economics with hashprice at all-time lows, Trump's new executive order spurring AI and energy R&D, Hive's $300M at-the-market offering, and Tether reupping its BTDR investment. And for this week’s dual cry corner, why Cardano still sucks and why gamers are crying as RAM prices surge from AI demand. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **Notes:** - Hash price at $36 per petahash per day (all-time low territory) - First back-to-back negative difficulty adjustments since summer - Small miners (1-5MW) shutting down operations - DDR5 RAM jumped from $100 to $400+ per unit - Hive raises $300M at-the-market offering - Operation Red Sunset targets Bitmain security risks Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:34 Difficulty Report by Luxor 06:22 US probes Bitmain 13:37 White House Genesis Mission EO 18:34 Hive $300m ATM 20:40 Tether reups its BTDR stake 26:17 Cry Corner: Cardano go down 30:44 Cry Corner: RAM too spensy 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading 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. Optimally monetizing low-cost, high reliability electricity positions them to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 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. 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	The United States government is going after Bitmain in a probe known as Operation Red Sunset,
0:04.6	and President Trump also signed an executive order this week to spur R&D development for AI and energy
0:09.7	in the U.S. This is the Mining Pot News Roundup, brought to you by Clean Spark, and for today's roundup,
0:14.4	we will be going over the Bitmain Story Operation Red Sunset, the new executive order, hives to
0:19.8	$300 million at the market offering, and Bit Deer getting
0:23.6	a fresh injection from Tether. And for this week's Cry Corner, we have Charles Hoskinson and
0:28.8	RAM prices going up. You're listening to the mining pod, and we'll be right back after a word from our
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1:34.3	What's up, y'all? Welcome back to the Mining Pod News Roundup. You've got Colin Harper,
1:38.8	editor-in-chief of Blockspace Media and Charlie Spears, co-founder of Blockspace Media on today. Little Riders Room crossover for the Mining Pod Roundup. Charlie, how you doing? Fantastic. There's a lot of news today. And even though it's Thanksgiving, that doesn't mean the world of compute and Bitcoin mining slows down. In fact, it's weird. It seems to have sped up. Yeah, I was a little worried that we were going to have a thin show today,
2:03.6	but we've got plenty of headlines to run through as I went through in the intro.
2:07.9	We're going to hop right to it with some Bitcoin mining data from Luxor's hash rate index
2:12.4	so that we can give ourselves, you know, the routine ceremonial whipping.
2:19.7	As we look at how we have to pay penance to the gods of broke.
2:25.3	Yeah, exactly.
2:26.8	As we give thanks for our paltry Thanksgiving of $36 for pet a hash per day spot hash price.
2:33.5	All jokes aside, if you all have been tuning
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