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Bitcoin Radio: Bitcoin Mining News & Stories
Bitcoin live news, stories, music and network data 24/7. Every story from the Mining Disrupt and Intelligence Disrupt stage, read in about three minutes, with a new episode for every story. 128 episodes so far.
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Episodes
- Is Crypto a Scam? Mining Disrupt News Surge Answers
The final Mining Disrupt News Surge of 2025 plays back a video calling crypto a scam and answers it line by line, starting with why Bitcoin is not crypto.
3:03 · Mining Disrupt - Bitcoin, Legos and a Wonky 2026
The December 15, 2025 News Surge asks what Bitcoin really is, runs Saylor's 30% math to 2055, and makes the case for a box of childhood Legos.
2:34 · Mining Disrupt - Is Bitcoin at a Bottom?
The Mining Disrupt News Surge host read the posts arguing Bitcoin's pullback was a bottom, a month before the second Mining Disrupt Expo in Dallas.
2:57 · Mining Disrupt - A Bone-Deep Feeling About Bitcoin
On a live, unedited News Surge, the host explains the Core and Knots fight with a marriage analogy and tells holders to plan how they protect their coins.
2:48 · Mining Disrupt - Rare Earths, Rate Cuts and an S&P 500 Call
The host tied China's grip on rare earths, White House pressure on the Fed and an Eric Trump clip to one forecast: Strategy joins the S&P 500.
2:53 · Mining Disrupt - Knots, Core and a Harvard Economist
The News Surge host on Kenneth Rogoff's Bitcoin post, why low fees are misread, and why he runs Knots on his own node.
2:53 · Mining Disrupt - Block's Proto Rig and the Halving Countdown
The August 18, 2025 News Surge looks at Block's modular Proto Rig, shrugs off a policy adviser's exit, and counts the blocks left to the next halving.
3:01 · Mining Disrupt - Bitcoin's Eight-Year Clock
A June 9, 2025 News Surge episode counts back in eight-year steps to 1971 and points ahead to the halving that cuts the block reward below one bitcoin.
2:45 · Mining Disrupt - The GameStop Signal
The March 31, 2025 News Surge on GameStop's Bitcoin treasury, a seven-point case for the stock, MicroStrategy's chart and the gap between generations.
2:54 · Mining Disrupt - Can BlackRock Change Bitcoin?
The December 23, 2024 News Surge follows Riot and Hut 8 buying Bitcoin, then uses a Magic: The Gathering deck to explain why a fork would not be Bitcoin.
2:51 · Mining Disrupt - Where the Coins Come From
On the eve of the 2024 election, Dell read the network numbers, a week of headlines and three stories he tied back to Bitcoin mining.
3:10 · Mining Disrupt - Custody, FOMO and the Slow Institutions
The September 9, 2024 News Surge pairs a retail buyer who wants out with Howard Lutnick's case that institutions are coming, slowly.
2:51 · Mining Disrupt - One Asset You Understand
The May 13, 2024 News Surge makes the case for one well-understood asset over a basket, with clips from Preston Pysh, David Collum and Michael Saylor.
2:52 · Mining Disrupt - Bitcoin Magazine's Ordinals Desk
The March 25, 2024 News Surge weighs Bitcoin Magazine's ordinals trading desk, a Greenpeace report, a money supply chart and the Bitkey wallet.
3:02 · Mining Disrupt - The $150 Billion Sum
The February 19, 2024 News Surge on spot ETF demand: the $150 billion adviser math, MicroStrategy, and posts calling every old Bitcoin model obsolete.
3:04 · Mining Disrupt - Adam Back's Six-Figure Bet
Household mining costs, a letter asking why the world needs crypto, and Adam Back on Bitcoin reaching $100,000 before the 2024 halving.
3:16 · Mining Disrupt - FedNow, a CBDC Prototype and the Miner's Break-Even
The Mining Disrupt News update weighed three payment stories against Bitcoin, then read Bernstein's numbers on what it costs public miners to mine one coin.
3:23 · Mining Disrupt - Greenhouse Heat and Nebraska Taxes From Bitcoin Mining
Episode two of the Mining Disrupt News Surge show: a Nebraska tax testimony, a solar-powered German factory and a Dutch greenhouse heated by miners.
3:09 · Mining Disrupt - Miner Outflows, Riot and an Outback Gas Shed
The July 3, 2023 News Surge covers a record $128 million in miner deposits to exchanges, Riot's Pittsburgh-built MicroBT order and a Queensland gas donga.
3:14 · Mining Disrupt - The Samurai Seizure and the Case for Rules
A Mining Disrupt News Surge episode from April 29, 2024 on the Samurai Wallet seizure, Zeus's statement, and why the host welcomes crackdowns.
2:44 · Mining Disrupt - Peanuts and the Spot Bitcoin ETF
A September 2023 Mining Disrupt News Surge episode on Cambridge's revised power index, the spot ETF wait, and why self-custody needs no brokerage.
3:05 · Mining Disrupt - Miners Kept Hashing as the Host Pointed at Binance
Difficulty rose 6.17% and blocks came in under nine minutes as the price fell; the host weighed five theories for the sell-off and backed Binance.
3:22 · Mining Disrupt - What Happens Before a Miner Hashes
Customs paperwork, freight handoffs, local roads and cooling water: Nicolas Rincon of EMCD on the work that happens before a miner hashes.
2:47 · Mining Disrupt - A Layer 2 Pitch to Bitcoin Miners
Growth lead Brett Wags told Mining Disrupt Miami 2024 that sequencer operators, miners among them, would share GOAT Network's transaction revenue.
1:59 · Mining Disrupt - Bitcoin Mechanic on Ocean and Permissioned Pools
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2024, Ocean's Bitcoin Mechanic argued that permissioned pools and FPPS payouts are mining's version of the Amazon and Uber trade.
3:18 · Mining Disrupt - JASMINER's 0.32 Joule Pitch
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2023, Grant Li of JASMINER argued that high hashrate and low power draw can coexist, and showed the X16 series to prove it.
1:48 · Mining Disrupt - Cyberian Mine's Plan to Heat Irkutsk
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2019, Rasmus Højland pitched hosted mining in Siberia and a plan to sell miners' waste heat to the city of Irkutsk.
2:36 · Mining Disrupt - Moonshot's Power Play: Bitcoin Sites and AI
The founder of a Texas switchboard maker walks through why an AI build costs far more per megawatt than a Bitcoin mine, and what that means for miners' sites.
2:57 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Warranty Gap in Bitcoin Mining
Joshua Bell of Revolve Labs says miners protect their phones but not the ASICs that earn their revenue, and pitches a warranty to close the gap.
2:50 · Mining Disrupt - Two-Phase Efficiency at Single-Phase Cost
CEO Reza Azizian argues a blended single-phase approach cuts capital costs while maintaining overclocking benefits.
2:48 · Mining Disrupt - Wall Street's Rule for Bitcoin Miners: Stay Allergic to Debt
At Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025, analysts from VanEck, H.C. Wainwright and Stifel KBW said what they look for in public Bitcoin miners.
3:01 · Intelligence Disrupt - Turning Waste Heat into Microgreens and Shrimp
AgriFORCE pipes heat from containerized Bitcoin miners into container farms for microgreens, with red algae and shrimp planned next.
3:08 · Mining Disrupt - Intelliflex’s Octopod: From Immersion Mining to AI Data Centers
Chuck L’Ecuyer traced Intelliflex from a 2019 prototype to 430 MW of immersion mining systems, then launched the Octopod for AI and HPC.
3:31 · Mining Disrupt - NuEnergen's Kevin Hamilton on Miners as Grid Assets
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2024, NuEnergen's CEO told miners to treat their sites as power plants and get paid for the power they do not use.
2:53 · Mining Disrupt - The Phone That Actually Rings: BT Miners' Survival Strategy
BT Miners' COO told Mining Disrupt Miami 2024 how phone support, free consultations, repair and hosting carried the company through the crypto winter.
2:06 · Mining Disrupt - The 12 by 60 Box: Intelliflex on Immersion Density
Chuck L’Ecuyer of CS Corporation walks through the Intelliflex IMDC: 1,152 machines and 6 megawatts on a 12-by-60-foot platform.
3:06 · Mining Disrupt - Kaspa's Shai Wyborski on Block Rate and Small Miners
One of Kaspa's original contributors argues that ten blocks a second lets small miners earn daily, and that slow blocks, not ASICs, push mining into pools.
3:08 · Mining Disrupt - Mining Through the Noise: A Lesson in Discipline
In a Mining Disrupt Miami 2022 interview, EDGE Data Solutions' co-founder said miners mine for the future price, and infrastructure lags the hardware.
1:47 · Mining Disrupt - SBI's Nick Vitalis on What Banks Need From Crypto
Nick Vitalis of SBI Crypto on what banks need before they hold digital assets: reconciliation, risk controls, custody and lower fees.
3:25 · Intelligence Disrupt - Iceland's Weather as a Mining Asset: Advania's Data Center Pitch
Ægir Magnússon of Advania Data Centers on free-air cooling, Tier I sites for ASIC miners and a 70-megawatt campus in Iceland.
3:28 · Intelligence Disrupt - Taiwan Adds AI Servers to Export Controls, Five-Year Prison Terms
Smuggling AI servers and the latest chips will become a crime under Taiwan's Foreign Trade Act, in step with U.S. controls.
1:26 · Intelligence Disrupt - Turning Mining Rigs into Cloud Assets
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2026, Arshed Gulshan of Equalizer explained how software can split a hosting center's hashrate across workers, pools and customers.
3:21 · Intelligence Disrupt - Sell Above Cost, Buy Below It: Lepard and Konstantinos on Miner Treasuries
The Big Print author and the People's Reserve founder on why a money print was coming, and why miners should sell above cost and buy below it.
2:50 · Mining Disrupt - State Lawmakers on Bitcoin Mining Policy
Pennsylvania's Robert Leadbeter, Michigan's Bryan Posthumus and Satoshi Action's Dennis Porter on reserve bills, mining taxes and state energy policy.
2:58 · Mining Disrupt - The True Cost of FPPS: Bitcoin Mechanic's Variance Argument
Ocean's Bitcoin Mechanic argues FPPS payouts are an expensive insurance product, and cites a 40-miner test where Ocean earned 30% more.
2:54 · Mining Disrupt - Bitbasel and Space Blue on Bitcoin Art Sent to the Moon
Space Blue's Dallas Santana and Bitbasel's Scarlett Arana on the Lunaprise disks that landed in February 2024 and a planned Bitcoin node on the Moon.
3:06 · Mining Disrupt - Don't Die Mining Bitcoin: Moonshot's Case for the Codes
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2024, the Moonshot founder walked miners through SCCR ratings, ground fault protection, arc flash studies and who carries the risk.
3:10 · Mining Disrupt - Core Scientific's Russell Cann on Hashprice and Power
Machines now last longer, hashprice swings harder and AI bids up power. Cann's case for curtailment, hedging and planning for 2028 and 2032.
2:54 · Mining Disrupt - Bitdeer's SEAL Roadmap to 5 Joules per Terahash
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2024, Bitdeer laid out four chip generations, from 18.1 J/TH down to a 5 J/TH target, and five risks miners face.
3:01 · Mining Disrupt - BITMAIN's Gaio Doria on Quality by Design
BITMAIN's senior sales manager on an R&D-heavy workforce, its repair and spare parts network, and the S21 Hydro, at Mining Disrupt Miami 2024.
3:07 · Mining Disrupt - Henry Quan on the Sum of Parts
Foundry Digital's Henry Quan argues that small gains in power supplies, wiring, tuning and immersion design add up, and that cooling must be bought on science.
3:15 · Mining Disrupt - Ted Cruz on Bitcoin, CBDCs and Flared Gas
In a Mining Disrupt Miami 2024 fireside chat, Senator Ted Cruz talked about his own miners, a CBDC ban, flared gas and why he wants Washington to move slowly.
2:49 · Mining Disrupt - Kaboomracks' Brian Snyder on Micro-Channel ASIC Cooling
From Phoenix office leases to a Force Physics micro-channel array: Brian Snyder's history of mining hardware and heat at Mining Disrupt Miami 2023.
2:54 · Mining Disrupt - The Green Grid: A Filmmaker’s Journey to Malawi
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2023, the director of the documentary Dirty Coin described what she filmed at mines in Finland, Malawi, DC and Paraguay.
2:54 · Mining Disrupt - Poolin's Denny Xing on a Bear Market Guide for Bitcoin Miners
Four challenges, four strategies and a turnkey immersion offer: Poolin's survival guide for miners at Mining Disrupt Miami 2022.
2:49 · Mining Disrupt - Fifty Percent More Hash
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2021, Gary Testa argued that heat, not the hash board, gates miner performance, and pitched immersion cooling as the fix.
3:16 · Mining Disrupt - Dave Perrill on the Tier Zero Data Center
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2019, Compute North's CEO argued that mining and some high-performance computing do not need tier four redundancy.
3:01 · Intelligence Disrupt - Fog Hashing: Mining Today, Computing Tomorrow
Fog Hashing's Nick Burley says AI is taking energy capacity from Bitcoin sites, and chillers and dry coolers let a mining site add GPU load fast.
3:06 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Invisible Dust Cost: Why Your Filters Lie
Camfil's Adam Wiggins on why a lab MERV rating can fade with a filter's electrostatic charge, and why unit price is the wrong number to buy on.
2:55 · Mining Disrupt - Auradine's 600 Terahash Hydro Miner and Energy Tune
At Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025, Auradine's chief strategy officer launched a 2U hydro miner and explained how its output can be tuned in seconds.
2:57 · Mining Disrupt - Hashrate Utilization: How Big Miners Run Their Sites
Marathon, Foundry, Core Scientific and CleanSpark operators on SOPs, hashrate hours, asset tracking and the technicians who keep fleets hashing.
3:12 · Mining Disrupt - The Forklift Cooler: Midas ASICE 3.0
Darren Burgess of Midas Immersion Cooling on a company that began as a data center, and what changed in its ASICE 3.0 tank system.
2:54 · Mining Disrupt - Turning Off to Win: The Miner's New Strategy
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2024, CPower laid out how automated demand response turns a mine's power into grid revenue, and why AI compute may follow.
3:04 · Intelligence Disrupt - Blockware's Danny Condon on Rigs as Assets
Danny Condon argues an ASIC is a dividend-paying asset with a spot value, not a sunk cost, and shows how resale changed two client returns.
3:15 · Mining Disrupt - Pow.re's Ian Descoteaux on Proxy Pools and Cobo Custody
Three lines of evidence that large Bitcoin mining pools share custody, block templates and accelerated transactions, and a free auditing service to track them.
3:14 · Mining Disrupt - The Case for Turning Off Your Miners
Nate Givens of Revolve Labs says machine learning can decide when a fleet curtails, dodge peak-hour fees and time repairs to downtime.
2:58 · Intelligence Disrupt - Three mining risk trends from an insurer
Evertas Chief Underwriting Officer Thomas Shewchuck on the risks and efficiencies of wind and solar sites, new ASIC fleets and expansion outside the US.
2:53 · Mining Disrupt - ePIC's Jim Seto on Custom, Reusable Mining Hardware
The ePIC Blockchain CEO argued that miners now write their infrastructure into hardware requirements, and that reuse decides which systems last.
2:51 · Mining Disrupt - From Waste Heat to Warm Coffee: The New Mining Revenue Stream
Alan Gallo of JSBIT shares how clients use ASIC heat recapture to heat coffee shops, extend growing seasons and farm fish.
3:21 · Mining Disrupt - Hive's Three-Cent Floor
Hive Digital Technologies' COO explains why hashprice, not Bitcoin price or difficulty alone, drives equipment decisions, and why Hive targets 25 J/TH.
3:03 · Mining Disrupt - MicroBT's Wright Wang on a US Factory and a Fixed Rack Shape
MicroBT's sales and marketing director on its US factory, three years of immersion tests and a hydro rack that will keep its shape.
2:50 · Mining Disrupt - Selling Mining Heat to a Brewery
Gary Testa of Engineered Fluids shows how idle immersion miners can heat a brewery's pasteurization water, cover the power bill and keep hashing.
2:53 · Mining Disrupt - Is the ROI There? A Miami Panel on Hydro and Immersion Cooling
Miners are moving from improvised oil tanks to factory-integrated hydro systems that slash labor costs and boost efficiency.
3:10 · Intelligence Disrupt - Ipollo's Home Miner Rental Pitch
Ipollo Miner's sales director pitched a 12-month miner rental with a small deposit and a profit split, aimed at beginners in a slow market.
3:01 · Intelligence Disrupt - Digital Shovel's Case Against the Shipping Container
Digital Shovel's Scot Johnson argues the 40-foot container forces miners to design around a box, and pitches a 300-kilowatt pod that ships flat.
2:56 · Intelligence Disrupt - The AI Shift in Immersion Mining
Mike Nixon argues that manual adjustments fail as Bitcoin volatility demands AI-driven, real-time optimization for immersion farms.
2:52 · Intelligence Disrupt - From House Fire to Three-Phase: The Power Supply Evolution
How a Washington house fire pushed one farm to UL-certified power supplies, and why Alpha Miner says single-phase units have hit their ceiling.
3:09 · Mining Disrupt - The Broken Equipment Trap: Why Winter Kills Bitcoin Miners
Brian Snyder lays out how Kaboomracks refurbishes used miners, repairs boards under a microscope and preps machines for immersion.
3:07 · Mining Disrupt - Money Left on the Table
Nathan Hatzfeld argues the hash miners already compute can secure side chains too, and that pools are keeping the reward.
3:04 · Mining Disrupt - Should Miners Form Councils?
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2021, node operator Tone Vays pressed council members on privacy, regulation and whether shared data weakens decentralization.
3:05 · Intelligence Disrupt - From Purchase to Liquidation: Managing a Mining Fleet's Lifecycle
Kaboomracks CFO Dustin Holden walks miners through auditing an existing fleet, choosing replacements, selling old machines and putting the proceeds to work.
2:57 · Mining Disrupt - MineBest on Mining After the 2020 Halving
Two months after the May 2020 halving, MineBest's sales chief looked at miner revenue, seven years without a new class of hardware, and where cheap power sits.
3:00 · Mining Disrupt - The Geopolitical Maze of Bitcoin Mining
Nacho Pauls argues that working through legal and political risks in emerging markets matters more than finding cheap power.
3:33 · Mining Disrupt - Mod42's Factory-Built Data Halls for Miners
Mod42 CEO Christopher Abramo on factory-built, 3-megawatt data halls for Bitcoin miners moving into AI and HPC.
3:05 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Concrete Ceiling of the AI Gold Rush
Why land, power, and cooling are the true bottlenecks in the AI infrastructure stack.
3:10 · Intelligence Disrupt - Tumbleweeds in the Filter
A Foundry product manager on tumbleweeds in the filters, more than 20 sites on Optifleet, and a firmware product written in-house.
2:48 · Mining Disrupt - Canaan's Fan Gao on Cheap Power and Patience
Canaan's head of mining operations made the case for US hashrate, low-repair machines and long contracts at Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025.
2:55 · Mining Disrupt - Dennis Porter's Cannabis Playbook for Bitcoin Mining
Satoshi Action's Dennis Porter argued at Mining Disrupt Miami 2023 that miners win by selling local benefits in statehouses, as cannabis did.
3:04 · Mining Disrupt - Flux and Proof of Useful Work
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2023, Daniel Keller pitched Flux, a GPU-mined network that switches miners from hashing to paid compute jobs.
3:12 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Complexity of Efficiency: Jim Seto on ePIC’s Approach
ePIC Blockchain's CEO says the next efficiency gains depend on firmware, power delivery and system design as much as on smaller silicon nodes.
3:01 · Mining Disrupt - Foreman's 810 Breaker Flips
Foreman's CEO on why miners in ERCOT's LZ West cannot flip breakers by hand, and how automated strike prices and demand response protect margins.
3:10 · Mining Disrupt - Ordinals Fees and the Halving: ASIC Jungle at Mining Disrupt Miami 2023
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2023, Mohamad Abdulrazak of ASIC Jungle argued that inscription fees were already paying miners ahead of the halving.
3:10 · Mining Disrupt - Wyoming's $102 Test
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Wyoming attorney Bob Cornish laid out the state's digital asset laws and his case for keeping U.S. raises inside its borders.
2:55 · Mining Disrupt - The Worm Farm Miner: Nick Jackson of Blokforge
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Blokforge's founder explained how ice cream shops, farms and steel plants fold miners into the business they already run.
3:11 · Mining Disrupt - Acrohash's Austin Plan: Shut Down for the Grid, Overclock in the Tank
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Acrohash's Tommy Li laid out a 100 MW Austin build, grid shutdown pledges, overclocking results and a one-gigawatt target.
2:52 · Intelligence Disrupt - Selling the Heat: GREENTECH's Case for Mining in the Netherlands
Jelmer ten Wolde argued that selling the heat from miners, not chasing cheaper power, is what keeps mining profitable in Europe.
3:10 · Mining Disrupt - Elite Mining's Justin Podhola on Mobile Immersion Mining Trailers
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2021, Elite Mining's CEO made the case for mobile immersion units in cargo trailers that need no concrete and can follow the power.
2:58 · Mining Disrupt - Foundry's Plan for Mining After China
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2021, Foundry's head of mining explained how financing, a U.S. pool and advisory work aimed to decentralize mining.
3:20 · Mining Disrupt - Mining Stacks With Bitcoin
Blockstack's Xan Ditkoff explained how Stacks 2.0 miners bid Bitcoin instead of electricity, and how stackers are paid in that Bitcoin.
3:09 · Mining Disrupt - Why One State Isn't Enough: Precision Miners' Geographic Bet
Krunal Joshi applies oil-and-gas risk tactics to hosting, betting that spreading sites across Missouri and Kansas ensures survival.
2:49 · Mining Disrupt - The Tyson Punch: Why Megawatts Kill
Ken Worton argues that the industry's casual attitude toward megawatts is a lethal blind spot, comparing a 22,000-amp fault to a Mike Tyson punch.
3:05 · Mining Disrupt - The Silent Hand: Vorick on Pool Centralization
David Vorick argues that the Stratum protocol unfairly exposes mining farms to liability, proposing Better Hash to return block selection to the hardware.
2:59 · Mining Disrupt - HIVE's Dual-Engine Bet: Mining Bitcoin to Power AI
HIVE COO Luke Rossy on using Bitcoin mining's daily revenue and operating discipline to build AI capacity, with a $660 million ARR goal for 2028.
2:59 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Hashrate Ambassador: Tic Tacc's Bitmain Strategy
Carmen Li explains how Tic Tacc acts as a liquidity provider, buying hardware in dips to stabilize the supply chain.
3:37 · Mining Disrupt - MicroBT Solar Mining: Turning Waste Heat into Revenue
MicroBT's Wright Wang on US production, a partner ecosystem for custom cooling, miners built for heat reuse, and DC miners designed for off-grid solar.
3:16 · Mining Disrupt - The Power Behind the Operation
Dream Power's Ben Johnson on running mining hardware out of Shenzhen: Bitmain and MicroBT ties, immersion cooling and an ETC miner for AI data centers.
3:01 · Intelligence Disrupt - Blowing the Heat Out: Digital Shovel's Ventilation Revolution
By forcing air with centrifugal blow instead of passive suction, Digital Shovel aims to fix heat recirculation in high-density containers.
2:44 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Chiller That Mines
At Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025, Bitmain's Yifan Hu pitched liquid-cooled miners that fit standard data centers, for operators weighing AI.
3:57 · Intelligence Disrupt - The End of the Wild West: HMTech's Closed Loop
Gerald Wilkie argues Bitcoin's next era is defined by eliminating operational chaos, not just raw power.
3:50 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Hidden Cost of Hash Rate
How mastering logistics, hidden insurance exclusions, and packaging protects your Bitcoin mining investment.
3:05 · Mining Disrupt - The Conservative Grandfather of Bitcoin Insurance
Thomas Shewchuck of Bitsure on three ways miners can cut fire risk and insurance premiums: surge protection, rotating maintenance and underclocking.
2:51 · Mining Disrupt - The Digital Flea Market of Hashrate
Marko Tarman explains how the spot market eliminates contracts and boosts miner margins by 7% through real-time bidding.
3:20 · Mining Disrupt - Order Out of Chaos: The New Face of South American Bitcoin Mining
Hash House's Andres Romero on Paraguay's regulated hydro rate, Brazil's cheap energy window, off-grid gas in Argentina and Colombia, and banking.
3:20 · Mining Disrupt - The Human Bottleneck: Why Workforce Quality Matters More Than Hardware
Adrian Hale argues Bitcoin's real bottleneck is workforce quality, not hardware, and proposes a community-focused fellowship as the antidote.
3:02 · Mining Disrupt - The Factory Floor Standard for Bitcoin
Joseph Florence of TechX argues that a broken miner is a high-density electronic assembly, and should be repaired to manufacturing standards.
3:12 · Mining Disrupt - The Human Edge in Texas Bitcoin Mining
Argo Blockchain CEO Peter Wall argues that local people, not just power, are the critical fourth pillar of mining success in Dickens County, Texas.
4:15 · Mining Disrupt - The Hidden Heat: Inside the New Frontier of Immersion Cooling
Gary Testa of Engineered Fluids explains how to design immersion mines that survive the physics of heat and power.
3:54 · Mining Disrupt - Canaan's Case for Bitcoin Mining as a Flexible Load
At Mining Disrupt Miami 2022, Canaan's Edward Lu argued that miners earn their place by soaking up surplus wind and solar, and launched the AvalonMiner 1266.
3:37 · Mining Disrupt - The Statistics of Silicon: When an ASIC Is a Good Deal
ASIC Jungle’s Artem Bespaloff argues that standard deviation, not market timing, is the key to buying mining hardware at the right price.
3:07 · Mining Disrupt - The Backpack Chip: How Automation Tamed the Mining Market
ASIC Jungle's Artem Bespaloff on turning a hardware brokerage into an automated marketplace with instant shipping quotes, deposits, KYC and escrow.
2:45 · Mining Disrupt - Scaling the Mine: Modular Hardware, Enterprise Software
Genesis Mining's Philip Salter on why scaling past one site takes modular containers, management software that keeps years of data, and a central expert team.
3:30 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Chip That Doesn't Pick a Side
Avnet ASIC and AzurEngine pitched a reconfigurable processor that lets miners switch coins while using far less power than a GPU.
3:11 · Intelligence Disrupt - The ASIC Inevitability: Why Software Standardization Matters More
Genesis Mining's Philip Salter argues that accepting hardware specialization is the only path to preventing new monopolies in the mining ecosystem.
2:59 · Intelligence Disrupt - Bitmain's Ecosystem Play: Beyond the Hardware
Bitmain's Irene Gao on three ways to raise mining efficiency in 2019: power-tunable hardware, trained repair staff and local repair, and shared industry news.
3:03 · Mining Disrupt - When Data Became a Service: Core Scientific's 2019 Bet
In 2019 Core Scientific pitched hosting as a software-run service. Seven years later it has all but left Bitcoin mining to rent power to AI.
3:35 · Intelligence Disrupt - The Miner’s Edge in the AI Gold Rush
Frank Holmes argues that the operational grit of Bitcoin mining is the only viable path for Hive into capital-intensive AI infrastructure.
3:54 · Intelligence Disrupt - Beyond the Treasury: Twenty One Capital's New Mission
Raphael Zagury argues the firm must shift to operating models like mining to outperform Bitcoin's risk-adjusted returns.
4:01 · Mining Disrupt - The Heat Is On: Why Cooling Is Killing AI Expansion
Shane of Data Airflow explains why air cooling is failing AI data centers and how hybrid hydronic systems balance water usage, uptime, and cost.
3:01 · Intelligence Disrupt