THE MINING POD: What Trump Means for BTC Miners and Strategic BTC Reserve With Pierre Rochard
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Riot’s Pierre Rochard joins the show to share his thoughts on Trump’s second administration, the potential of federal and state-level strategic bitcoin reserves, and more.
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Riot’s VP of Research, Pierre Rochard, joins Will and Colin to discuss a variety of topics. The fellas start by talking about what a second Trump presidency and Republican Congress means for Bitcoin miners, especially in light of the last administration and Congress’ hostility toward all things Bitcoin. He also weighs the merits of a national Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, as well as one in Texas, and the pod closes on discussion of Riot’s $594.4 million convertible note and the miner’s expansion outside of Texas.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:09 Pierre's bio
15:13 Elizabeth Warren
17:03 Expecting positive regulation?
20:36 Texas mining bills
27:32 AI power demand on Texas grid
31:54 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
33:42 National SBR?
34:45 Riot convertible note
40:24 Why not invest in infrastructure?
42:43 Why debt financing now?
45:16 Convertible debt niche
51:41 New Kentucky mining site
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the mining pod. On today's show, we're joined by Pierre Rochard. He is the VP of |
| 0:04.3 | Research at Riot Platforms. We brought Pierre on to honestly just talk through a lot of different |
| 0:09.6 | subjects on the Texas Bitcoin mining market. We also talked about Riot, why it chose to pursue |
| 0:14.8 | these convertible note structures versus just reinvest in Riot buy shares, back, etc. And then we also talked about the |
| 0:22.7 | Texas SBR Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Thank you, Pierre, for joining us on this show. Before we jump |
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| 1:23.2 | today. Hey, welcome back to the Mining Pod. On today's show. We're joined by the one and only |
| 1:27.8 | here, Rochard, of Riot Platforms. Here, we've ever had you on, which I don't know how we |
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