HashrateUp - A Bitcoin Mining Podcast

In this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse breaks down the biggest Bitcoin mining stories of the week: why public miners are selling Bitcoin to fund AI pivots, what that means for difficulty and hash rate, and why the miners still online are quietly winning.

Topics covered: Wintermute's Epoch 5 report on the structurally different mining cycle, mullet mining (AI in the front, SHA-256 in the back), oil price impact on global hash rate, MicroBT's new M7D series, Hive expanding AI data centers in Canada, Bitdeer hitting 68 EH/s and launching a Scrypt miner, Kango's $450M net loss and $305M Bitcoin sell-off, Simple Mining's $13.6M unsecured claim in the Blockville bankruptcy, and Bitcoin difficulty set for an 8% drop.

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🔗 Kent Halliburton:

Website: https://sazmining.comX (Twitter): https://x.com/khalliburtonLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/khalliburton

In this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse sits down with Kent Halliburton, CEO & Co-Founder of Sazmining, to break down what it actually looks like to mine Bitcoin across five sites on four continents.

Kent walks through Sazmining's journey from a single-megawatt proof of concept in Wisconsin to operating 17.5 MW across Paraguay, Norway, Ethiopia, South Dakota and an upcoming Texas site. They discuss how AI data center demand is reshaping rack space availability, why Sazmining's 15% revenue share model becomes especially attractive during bear markets, and how jurisdictional diversification is the only real hedge when no country is truly safe for mining.

The conversation gets into the realities on the ground: Paraguay's regulatory standoff and the government now mining confiscated rigs, Ethiopia's threatened power price hike that hasn't materialized, Norway's heat reuse operation in the Arctic Circle, and why enterprise buyers are loading up while retail sits on the sidelines.

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In this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse breaks down the biggest Bitcoin mining stories of the week, from billion-dollar AI pivots to a historic Bitcoin milestone and a surprise opportunity in South Africa.

Enscale, spun out of Bitcoin mining operator Archon Energy, raised $2 billion backed by Nvidia, Jane Street, Citadel, Dell, and Lenovo for AI infrastructure. TeraWolf secured a $3.2 billion Google credit backstop to pivot from mining to AI compute. Foundry is expanding into Zcash as $30 hash price compresses pool margins. The 20 millionth Bitcoin was mined last week with just 1 million left over the next decade. And Eskom, South Africa's state power utility, announced plans to sell surplus daytime energy to Bitcoin miners.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction and market conditions

0:54 Enscale raises $2B for AI infrastructure

1:48 Bitcoin mining roots at Archon Energy

2:21 20 millionth Bitcoin mined

3:04 Foundry expands into Zcash mining pool

3:58 Google backstops TeraWolf AI pivot

4:31 Eskom surplus energy for Bitcoin miners in South Africa

6:07 Closing thoughts

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In this FOCUS episode, Jesse breaks down the AI pivot sweeping through Bitcoin mining — and why the miners still online are quietly winning.

Public miners like Marathon, Core Scientific, TeraWulf, and Bitfarms are selling Bitcoin at record pace, unplugging hash rate, and redirecting billions into AI infrastructure. The result: network difficulty is dropping for the first time in years and hash rate is stagnating.

Jesse walks through the latest headlines chronologically — from CoreWeave's $8.5B loan to OpenAI's $110B funding round — and explains the self-reinforcing loop driving the exodus. His thesis: if your breakeven is low enough to survive this slump, you'll earn more BTC per terahash as competitors exit.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction & current network stats

1:21 AI pivot news breakdown

4:56 Public miners selling BTC at record pace

6:17 Jesse's thesis: why survivors win

7:50 Hash rate & difficulty outlook for 2026

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🔗 Bob Burnett:

Website: https://barefootmining.com

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In this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse sits down with Bob Burnett, founder of Barefoot Mining and board member at Ocean Mining Pool, to break down the critical difference between hashing and actually mining Bitcoin and why it matters more than ever.

Most operators think they're mining Bitcoin. Bob argues they're not, they're hashers, handing over block template control, mempool management, and protocol signaling to a third party. The episode unpacks how FPPS pools work, what miners are silently giving up, and why Ocean's PPLNS-based payout model has outperformed FPPS pools by 6–18% over a two-year study.

Bob also explains miner signaling for the first time in plain language: what BIP 110 is, how the 55% activation threshold works, why the concentration of hashrate in three pools gives them effective veto power over Bitcoin protocol changes and what it means that Bob mined the very first block ever signaling for BIP 110.

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