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National Security Threat? Biden Blocks Bitcoin Miner

May 17, 202428 min
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Episode description

Matt Kimmell and Will Foxley of Blockspace Media jump into this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a network healthy check, mining stocks slowly bleeding out while Bitcoin ETFs continue to grow in strength, the Biden administration forcing the divestment of a Bitcoin mining farm from Chinese owners outside a nuclear power plant in Wyoming, and Bitfarms’ lawsuit with its former CEO!


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Timestamps:


00:00 Start

03:34 Difficulty update

08:24 Inefficient miners exit: JP Morgan

10:18 ETF updates

14:06 Choppy for public miners

17:39 US blocks China miners

22:35 Bitfarms exec shakeup


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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

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