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  • Nov 28, 2025 · 52 min

    CleanSpark FY 2025 Recap: It's Not an AI Pivot, It's an Expansion w/ Matthew Schultz

    Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Matthew Schultz, CEO of CleanSpark, joins us to talk about CleanSpark'sfiscal year 2025 earnings. CleanSpark raked in $766M in revenue for the year, hit the 50 EH/s milestone, and has begun expanding into AI loads. Schultz shares insights on CleanSpark’s partnerships with Submer for cooling solutions, the company’s capital strategy, the potential for hybrid mining-HPC loads at CleanSpark sites, and what the AI revolution means for bitcoin mining in the United States. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **Notes:** • $766M in FY 2025 revenue • LEadership change refocused company • Austin Texas site underway • AI load feasibility being explored for Sandersville, other sites • $1.15B convertible note almost over subscribed Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:15 Overview of fiscal year 07:16 Leadership change 09:43 Texas site development 13:41 Submer cooling solutions partner 18:30 Containerized solutions 21:39 Green field vs retrofit 27:23 Blended AI & mining sites 30:50 Two business lines 36:11 $1.15B note 45:19 Evaluating operators 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. They own a fully self-operated portfolio of mining facilities across the U.S. powered by globally competitive energy prices. CleanSpark sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship. Optimally monetizing low-cost, high reliability electricity positions them to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Nov 28, 2025 · 36 min

    Operation Red Sunset, the White House’s Genesis Mission, Tether Buys BTDR, RAM Prices Soar

    Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Charlie break down Operation Red Sunset—the US government's probe into Bitmain over national security concerns. We also cover brutal mining economics with hashprice at all-time lows, Trump's new executive order spurring AI and energy R&D, Hive's $300M at-the-market offering, and Tether reupping its BTDR investment. And for this week’s dual cry corner, why Cardano still sucks and why gamers are crying as RAM prices surge from AI demand. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **Notes:** - Hash price at $36 per petahash per day (all-time low territory) - First back-to-back negative difficulty adjustments since summer - Small miners (1-5MW) shutting down operations - DDR5 RAM jumped from $100 to $400+ per unit - Hive raises $300M at-the-market offering - Operation Red Sunset targets Bitmain security risks Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:34 Difficulty Report by Luxor 06:22 US probes Bitmain 13:37 White House Genesis Mission EO 18:34 Hive $300m ATM 20:40 Tether reups its BTDR stake 26:17 Cry Corner: Cardano go down 30:44 Cry Corner: RAM too spensy 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. They own a fully self-operated portfolio of mining facilities across the U.S. powered by globally competitive energy prices. CleanSpark sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship. Optimally monetizing low-cost, high reliability electricity positions them to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Nov 25, 2025 · 46 min

    Bitcoin Mining Isn't Dead w/ Steve Barbour

    Upstream Data CEO and Founder Steve Barbour joins the pod to talk about the state of bitcoin mining and why he’s not sold on the hybrid AI-bitcoin miner trade.

  • Nov 20, 2025 · 33 min

    Bitdeer Q3 Recap: AI Plans, the Future of BTDR’s Bhutan Mining, and SEALMINER A4 Update w/ Harit Basit

    Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Haris Basit, CSO at Bitdeer, joins us to break down their Q3 results, where revenue hit $169.7M (up 173% YoY), self-mining production doubled to 1,109 BTC, and they achieved 41.2 EH/s of self-mining capacity. We dive deep into Bitdeer’s AI and HPC expansion strategy across sites in Norway, Tennessee, Washington, and Ohio, discuss the SEALMINER A3’s production schedule and A4 chip development delays, and get updates on the Massillon facility fire recovery. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **Notes:** • Revenue up 173% YoY to $169.7M • Self-mining doubled: 565 to 1,109 BTC • Hash rate reached 41.2 exahash in October • Adjusted EBITDA: $43M vs -$7.9M last year • SEALMINER delays • AI expansion: planned across 4 sites Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:32 Overview of report 05:43 Colocation vs self mining vs neoloud 09:30 Why do both colocation & neocloud? 10:42 Facility fire 12:13 Bhutan 15:01 Convertible notes 16:43 Future financing options 18:54 Cloud mining profitability 19:57 Choosing where to locate services 22:11 Alberta 24:03 Ethiopia 25:20 ASIC production 28:35 A4 delays 31:39 What's coming? 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. They own a fully self-operated portfolio of mining facilities across the U.S. powered by globally competitive energy prices. CleanSpark sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship. Optimally monetizing low-cost, high reliability electricity positions them to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Nov 12, 2025 · 30 min

    How Galaxy Digital Smashed Q3 Earnings Expectations w/ Jonathan Goldowsky

    Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Jonathan Goldowsky, Head of Investor Relations at Galaxy Digital, joins us to talk about Galaxy's record-breaking Q3 2025 with $505M in net income and $29.2B in revenue. We discuss the launch of Galaxy One, their new fintech platform, Galaxy’s CoreWeave AI data center deal at their Helios campus in Texas, the historic 80,000+ Bitcoin trade, and what Galaxy's pivot to AI infrastructure really means for the company's bitcoin mining arm. **Notes:** • Net income: $505M in Q3 2025 • Total revenue: $29.2B, up 223% YoY • Largest Bitcoin trade ever: 80,000+ BTC sold • Assets on platform: $17B all-time high • CoreWeave deal: 800MW at Helios campus • Mining capacity reduced from 6+ EH/s to 1.5-2 EH/s Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:24 Galaxy earnings overview 06:09 Galaxy One Launch 07:21 Premium Yield Account 09:03 Current Galaxy One customers 12:05 Staking 13:23 Cleanspark Ad 13:54 AI & HPC (Coreweave) 17:02 Powershell Vs Neocloud 21:13 Capital structure 24:58 Getting past the first build 26:44 New build sites? 28:19 Phasing out BTC mining? 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. They own a fully self-operated portfolio of mining facilities across the U.S. powered by globally competitive energy prices. CleanSpark sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship. Optimally monetizing low-cost, high reliability electricity positions them to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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