THE MINING POD: Tether Sues Swan, Gov’t Blacklists Sophgo, and Pool Transaction Censorship

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Colin and Will cover the Tether and Swan Bitcoin lawsuit and other news on this week’s roundup. Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Will dig into Tether’s lawsuit against Swan Bitcoin, the latest development in a now two-front legal dispute over the companies’ bitcoin mining joint venture. Plus, the U.S. government is issuing trade restrictions against Sophgo, a Chinese computer chip company helmed by Bitmain CEO Micree Zhan, and F2Pool might be filtering transactions from OFAC-sanctioned Bitcoin addresses again. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, a Bitcoin mining company’s guerrilla sales tactic to get Ethereum DeFi platform AAVE to invest its treasury into bitcoin mining. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:30 Difficulty report 04:49 Tether sues Swan 16:14 BitFuFu Plans Oklahoma Mine 24:52 F2Pool Censoring TXs 33:37 Cry corner: AAVE to mine BTC? 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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0:00.0	What's up, y'all? Welcome back to the Mining Pod News Roundup. We've got a duo show today with your boy Colin and your boy Will. Mr. Foxley, how are we today?
0:09.6	No, Matt. I miss him already. Yeah, I miss him. He's down and out. He's sick. The sickness might have been inspired by Texas getting that ass whooped in the college football
0:21.5	semifinals. But this is not a sports show, so I won't go into that right now.
0:26.5	He's a UT fan. That's funny. Yeah, he is. Very nice. Very nice. No, I feel like everyone's sick
0:31.2	right now. So everyone's sick right now. It's all of that. It's the strange fog coming in. It's the it's the it's the
0:38.3	Wuhan round two. And also not a conspiracy show. That's for writers room, which we will
0:44.1	record tomorrow on fire. Hey, we're big. There's a few conspiracies are fine. But on the
0:50.7	little Alex Jones tinfoil hat. Anyway, so for today's show, we've got the usual difficulty in Bitcoin mining metric update.
0:59.6	We've got a big update on litigation regarding Swan Bitcoin news that Blockspace broke this week of tether, taking Swan to court in the UK and Her majesty's court system. We've got a titillating
1:13.7	story on the U.S. blacklisting certain Chinese companies over TSM and Huawei chip crossovers,
1:21.9	or TSMC chips being crossed over into Huawei devices. A pretty interesting story that went under the radar of potential OFAC sanctioning from some mining pools
1:30.9	from a researcher B10C.
1:34.9	And for this week's Cry Corner and Ave, AVE, I'm not a chick corner, so I don't know these things,
1:41.0	proposal from the blockware team for Avey to establish a Bitcoin reserve via Bitcoin mining.
1:46.8	But first, before we dive into it, a word from our chair of sponsors.
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2:05.9	Thanks for listening to The MiningPod.
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