THE MINING POD: The $2.1 Million ‘Epic’ Bitcoin Satoshi

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Charlie and Will go through this week’s headlines, including the $2.1 million ‘Epic Satoshi’ mined by ViaBTC during the Bitcoin halving, then auctioned off to the highest bidder. Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here. We go through this week’s news in Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining, including ViaBTC’s 33.3 BTC auction reward, Jack Dorsey’s Block announcing its 3 nm chip plans for a Bitcoin ASIC, and a behind-the-scenes look at TSMCs Arizona chip fab! CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Start 00:07:27 Post-Halving Difficulty 00:12:16 Via BTC's Epic Sat Sale 00:16:14 Block's 3nm Mining Chip 00:20:01 Challenges for New ASICS 00:24:28 Jack Dorsey's Support 00:27:28 TSMC's Arizona Fab Issues 00:32:26 Wrap-up 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! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! 👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. 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	Welcome back to the Mining Pod. On today's show, we're doing our news roundup, Bitcoin and Bitcoin
0:04.0	mining news that you missed this week or want a little more color on. So we're going to go through
0:09.6	the Epic Sat Sale for 33 Bitcoin for VATC, Jack Dorsey's 3 nanometer Bitcoin mining chip,
0:17.0	and then an interesting article from TSM, among other things.
0:27.9	If you miss the Samurai Wallet News or also the conversation with Matt Crowell and Marty Bent about Bitcoin mining decentralization,
0:30.0	go check out our live stream that we did yesterday.
0:32.2	It's in today's show notes.
0:33.6	We talk about both those things.
0:37.5	We don't dwell on them too long in today's podcast because of that, but those were certainly very large headlines from this week. Okay, we're going to jump right into the conversation after a
0:43.3	few words from our sponsors, Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining, hear from them first, and then Clean
0:48.0	Spark, America's Bitcoin Miner. You'll hear from them a little bit later in today's show.
0:52.5	Okay, on to the episode.
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