Difficulty Drop, Arkansas Mining Bans and AI Mining Pivots

In this week’s Mining Pod, Will and Matt dig into Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including: difficulty dropping 5.5%, Arkansas putting restrictions around Bitcoin mining and large Bitcoin miners pivoting into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

00:00:00 Start

00:02:07 Hashrate go down

00:06:35 Texas grid spikes

00:10:57 Canaan Avalon A15

00:17:26 Arkansas hates noise & communists

00:25:01 Miners pivot to AI infrastructure

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