THE MINING POD: Proto ASIC Miner, MARA’s AI Move, Google Invests in Terawulf, Ethiopia Mining Ban
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Proto is changing the game with its new ASIC miner, Rig, and MARA takes a majority stake in an AI/HPC company tied to France’s government-run power provider.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Matt cover Proto's groundbreaking new ASIC miner, Terawulf’s $3.7B Google-backed HPC deal, Ethiopia's bitcoin mining ban, and Monero's 51% attack.
**Notes:**
• Proto Rig: 14.1 J/TH, 800 TH/s, swappable hashboards
• Terra Wolf: $3.7B deal, Google 8% stake
• Bitcoin hit $124K ATH, down to $117.9K
• Hash price: $57.89 per PH/day
• Mara acquires 64% stake in Exaion for $168M
• Monero down 18% after miner attack
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:09 Difficulty Report by Luxor
08:02 Proto Event
14:51 MARA stake in Exaion
18:36 Cleanspark
19:05 Terawulf 200 MW HPC deal
23:15 Ethiopia mining ban
27:24 Cry Corner- Monero 51% attack
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, y'all? Welcome back to the mining pod brought to you by Clean Spark. Will is out today. |
| 0:05.2 | He is at the Proto event in Georgia. So you're stuck with Colin and Matt, but who doesn't love a little Colin and Matt one-on-one, Ted-a-Tat? How you doing, Matt? |
| 0:13.0 | Ready to round up. Let's do it, man. So we've got some interesting news items this week. We will be covering the Proto Rig launch that Will has been reporting on in Georgia. |
| 0:23.9 | Proto, a subsidiary of Block, or I guess not really a subsidiary. |
| 0:27.6 | It's specifically their mining rig manufacturing arm. |
| 0:31.2 | Just released their Bitcoin Miner, some interesting things to pick out there. |
| 0:35.5 | It seems like the launch was pretty successful and the rig looks |
| 0:38.6 | pretty sweet. So we'll be covering that as our hero story after the password index update that we |
| 0:45.8 | usually do. Then we will hop into another news item from today, Tara Wolf signing a 10-year |
| 0:51.3 | 200 megawatt hosting deal for its AI and HBC compute. |
| 0:55.4 | Moving on to another story about Mara acquiring a majority stake in an HBC company. |
| 1:00.4 | Interesting. |
| 1:01.0 | First move there for them in that realm. |
| 1:03.5 | And then we will be going on to the Ethiopia mining ban that broke this week. |
| 1:08.5 | And we will finish on a cry corner for Monaro. |
| 1:13.8 | Manero got 51% attack, not quite 51% attacked. |
| 1:17.5 | There's kind of some disagreement on the definitions there. |
| 1:20.2 | But going to be an interesting one. |
| 1:22.1 | We don't want to bash Monaro too much. |
| 1:24.4 | It's less of a cry corner and more of a like, oh, sorry about that, bro. |
| 1:28.4 | But anyway, before we start, a word from our sponsors. |
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