10% Difficulty Adjustment, Riot’s Hostile Takeover, Cantor’s $2B Loan Book, and MARA’s $100M HODL

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Charlie, Will and Matt jump on the mic to discuss this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including the largest Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment since January 2023 at 10.5%, Riot’s increasing pressure on Bitfarms for control over the latter company’s future, new ASIC models debuting at Bitcoin Nashville from Auradine and MicroBT, Cantor Fitzgerald rolling out a $2 billion book for Bitcoin companies and MARA’s $100 million HODL position Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:30 Difficulty update (NGU edition) 07:04 MinerMag: Return of the HODL 09:13 Russia Legitimizes Mining 14:57 MinerMag: Aint No Love w/ Riot & Bitfarms 18:38 Cantor Enters BTC Lending 25:17 New MicroBT rigs 26:33 New Auradine rigs 29:06 Marathon goes full HODL mode 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!  👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices