THE MINING POD: Trump or Kamala? Bitcoin Mining’s 2024 Presidential Stakes

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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If Harris wins, does that spell doom for MAGA Bitcoin miners? Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Kyle Schneps, VP of Public Policy at Bitcoin mining pool Foundry, joins us to discuss…well the election! Why did Bitcoin miners go so hard for Trump and will there be repercussions? Why did Foundry sit in between and not endorse either candidate? And what actually matters more in 2024, States or the Federal level? 👉 Get tickets to OP_NEXT by visiting the website! And use discount code OCTOBER to get 25% off at check out! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:05 Foundry & political lobbying 04:09 New York state politics 11:10 Trump, AI & energy policy 17:33 Harris statement on crypto 22:54 Miners love Trump? 27:16 What happens if Harris looses? 30:47 US Bitcoin industry 32:24 Key election issues for Bitcoin 37:12 Miners working with energy companies 39:29 Get involved 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! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk. 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	Hey, welcome back to the mining pod. Today we're talking public policy. So hopefully everyone stays on
0:06.3	air for this one because sometimes people don't like politics, but it's presidential election season.
0:11.2	So we brought on Kyle Schnept from Boundary to talk about that. Are you retail or institutional investor
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0:43.8	Kyle, welcome to the mining pod.
0:46.2	Hey, thanks for having me. Good to see you again.
0:48.1	Yeah, we were just at Masari Mainnet, and we had a great panel.
0:52.5	It was honestly kind of a hodgepodge of people in the mining industry.
0:55.7	We had investors, operators, hosting, and then you were there kind of given like the reg side of stuff.
1:04.4	And I think it was a pretty good panel.
1:06.0	We definitely just want to follow up because here's an opportunity to talk about what's happening with the industry
1:11.1	going into what could be one of the most important presidential elections for Bitcoin.
1:18.8	Everyone always says like this most important presidential election.
1:22.3	But for Bitcoin, I think there's a pretty good case for it, given the history of the Harris
1:26.3	or the Biden administration and now
1:27.9	Trump's claims. But we'll start with just some context. Why is Foundry involved with lobbying
1:34.5	in the first place or involved with the political scene? Maybe you guys don't describe it as
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