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THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining’s Q1 Numbers With Parker Merritt


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A lot happened in Q1! Catch up on all the top-of-the-line Bitcoin metrics with Parker Merritt of Coin Metrics.


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Parker Merritt from Coinmetrics and Will Foxley discuss key metrics, trends, and insights. Topics include mining pools, hash rate, transaction fees, hardware fingerprinting, energy consumption, miner efficiency, and the performance of publicly traded mining stocks.


Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:01:45 Foreman ad

00:02:28 Sponsor message

00:02:52 Introductions

00:03:50 Bitcoin Halving update

00:05:12 Bitcoin Cash price surge

00:09:08 Bitcoin Cash mining revenue

00:11:23 Bitcoin Cash blockchain growth

00:13:41 Big blocks in Bitcoin

00:17:35 Mining pool distribution

00:20:40 Mining pool payout analysis

00:25:53 ASIC breakeven power costs

00:28:50 ASIC fingerprinting methodology

00:34:20 Bitcoin energy consumption

00:35:58 Mining & grid load balancing

00:38:50 Average network efficiency

00:41:52 CleanSpark's on-chain data

00:45:53 Miner market cap dominance

00:49:01 Miner stocks vs. Bitcoin in 2024


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! 

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👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!

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"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. 

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