Difficulty Update, IREN Lawsuit, Antminer S21, Tokenized Whiskey and Satoshi Nakamoto

Welcome back to the Mining Pod! We’re going through Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news including a difficulty update after Florida hurricanes, IREN’s lawsuit about HPC, Bitmain releasing another version of the S21 with less efficiency (why?), Marathon’s Anduro platform getting in on tokenized whiskey, Marathon also getting sued for being too loud at its Granbury, Texas site and HBOs new Satoshi Nakamoto documentary uncovering the creator of Bitcoin was none other than Peter Todd, a guest and friend of the show! We dig in.

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Timestamps:

00:15 Start

01:16 Difficulty update

03:14 IREN HPC lawsuit

09:26 Bitmain announces new S21 variants

15:04 MARA’s whiskey on the blockchain

25:30 MARA’s continued dispute with Texas town

29:16 Cry corner: HBOs documentary

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