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Mar 2024
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THE MINING POD: Rapper French Montana Is...

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Charlie, Matt and Will jump back into our news roundup to go through this week’s Bitcoin mining hits, including mining profitability, rapper French Montana minting a music Ordinal and the Biden administration taking a second shot at a 30% tax on Bitcoin miners.

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It’s getting frothy out there! On this week’s news roundup, Charlie, Matt and Will go through this week’s hottest stories in Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining including a 4 megabyte music Ordinal (think music NFT but on Bitcoin) from rapper French Montana, among a host of other movements in the mining industry like the Biden admin’s renewed attempts to tax Bitcoin mining.

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