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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin, Charlie, and Matt break down about the sharp decline in Bitcoin network hash rate and how Bitcoin narrowly dodged a "royal flush" of negative difficulty adjustments. We analyze Riot’s $500M ATM offering, TeraWulf’s latest financing for AI compute, and the Semler Scientific-Strive merger. Plus, for this week’s cry corner, David Beckham's Prenetics pivots away from its bitcoin treasury strategy.

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**Notes**

* Hashprice under $40/PH/day

* Riot opens $500M ATM offering

* TeraWulf seeks $1.3B financing

* SMLR chairman urges investors to vote yes on ASST merger

* David Beckham’s Prenetics holds $44.8M in BTC

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:46 Difficulty Report by Luxor

07:24 WULF TWO-FOR

13:12 Tailwinds in 2026

17:21 Riot’s $500M ATM

21:51 Cry corner: DATs dead? Beckham thinks so

👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner!

CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us 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.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Charlie and Colin proudly inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show for the best and worst in Bitcoin for that year. The winners of this year’s Hashies, in order of appearance, are as follows:


Most Ascendant BTC Mining CEO: Daniel Roberts


Most Ascendant Crypto CEO: Shayne Coplan


Best Deal of the Year: CRWV<>CORZ (because – not despite – it fell though)


Worst Deal of the Year: RIOT<>BITF takeover bid


Best Investor Cult: IREN 


Worst Investor Cult: MARA


Biggest Crashout: Luke Dashjr


Most REKT Crypto Play: Memecoins


Most REKT Equity Play: BTC Treasury Companies / DATs


Best Prediction: Valentine Rousseau’s 2025 Hashrate Projection 


Worst Prediction: Every gigabull BTC price target

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:58 Most Ascendent CEO Bitcoin Mining

05:14 Most Ascendent CEO Crypto

07:24 Best Deal of 2025

10:08 Worst Deal of 2025

12:39 Best Investor Cult

14:07 Worst Investor Cult

16:50 Biggest Crash Out

23:20 Most REKT Crypto

29:00 Most REKT Equity

31:27 Best Prediction

33:25 Worst Prediction

👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner!

CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us 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!
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, and Charlie are back with another (in)famous Vibe Rankings for Bitcoin Mining Stocks. For bitcoin mining stocks, 2025 was a year defined by aggressive expansion in the AI sector, but some miners have been more fruitful with their endeavors than others. For today’s roundup, the team dives into our 2025 year-end rankings for the top bitcoin mining stocks, which includes some spirited debate about who belongs in what tier – and whether or not any bitcoin mining stock earned an S rank in 2025.

**Notes:**

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

09:08 Vibe Ranking

12:39 Canaan (CAN)

16:09 Cipher Mining (CIFR)

20:55 Hive (HIVE)

26:26 American Bitcoin (ABTC)

34:31 BitFUFU (BITF)

39:04 Marathon (MARA)

44:53 Hut 8 (HUT)

49:40 Cango (CANG)

53:40 Bitfarms (BITF)

57:20 Core Scientific (CORZ)

1:02:52 Bitdeer (BTDR)

1:08:53 IREN (IREN)

1:12:53 RIOT (RIOT)

1:15:15 Terawulf (WULF)

👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner!

CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us 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!
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