JP Morgan analyst Reggie Smith rejoins Colin and Will to discuss Bitcoin mining economics, valuation metrics, and the emerging intersection with AI computing. We go through how a big bank like JP Morgan values miners, including possible costs and revenues, before focusing on AI/HPC and mining. Lastly, we finish on mining costs, dilution and relative valuations of the mining industry.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:53 Fintech team at JPMorgan

02:42 Valuing mining companies

03:38 Analyst goals

06:11 Miner report

07:51 Economic models

12:40 Calculating operational costs

18:38 AI and costs

21:52 How liquid is the AI compute market?

25:36 Good metrics for miner valuation?

28:42 Payroll costs

32:29 Equity dilution

39:17 AI strategies

46:40 The power of existing PPAs

51:22 Highest & lowest gains

54:18 Are miners overvalued?

58:12 M&A activity

1:01:40 Price & hashrate predictions

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