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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, and Matt don their butchers’ aprons to dissect Thursday’s market carnage, with some bitcoin miners down double digits on the day. We cover Bitdeer's electrical fire at a facility in Ohio, discuss Lava's controversial custody model changes, Stone Ridge/Nydig's oil and gas expansion, and for this week’s cry corner, Jim Cramer yells at CoreWeave’s CEO.

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**Notes:**

• Mining stocks down 5-10% across the board today

• Bitdeer down 46% on five-day chart

• $20B wiped from mining market cap since October

• Riot peaked at $70, started Liberation Day at $2

• Bitdeer fire destroyed two mining units in Ohio

• 650B annual revenue by 2029 needed for 10% AI return

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

04:19 Market crashing

08:35 Difficulty Report by Luxor

13:11 Bitdeer mining farm in Ohio burning

23:02 Lava goes centralized

31:26 Auradine's new unit announced

38:59 What's NYDIG up to?

42:23 Cry Corner: CORZ delay

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