Bitcoin & AI, IREN’s Short Report and Tether’s Mining Investments

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! In this week’s news roundup, we touch on Bitcoin network metrics, Bitcoin miners increasingly moving to AI, IREN’s short report and what it meant for the stock, Tether’s bid to take over Bitcoin mining (or, diversify revenue and asset holdings) and Charlie’s Ordinals report! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:58 Difficulty report 06:08 Miners pivot to AI 14:07 Iris Energy Short Report 18:40 Tether & Northern Data 23:30 Ordinals report 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