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Dec 2024
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THE MINING POD: The Mining Metrics That ...

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Which metrics are the most important for valuing public bitcoin miners? Pennyether spills his secret sauce on today’s show.

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s Bitcoin Stock Show, we’re joined by a great friend of the show, Pennyether. Some of y’all might recognize Penny from a couple of the earnings calls we streamed on The Bitcoin Stock Show earlier this year. He’s one of the most insightful independent bitcoin mining stock analysts in the game, and in this episode, he shares his methodology for valuing bitcoin miners, which metrics he finds the most (and least) useful, and his thoughts on the AI boom in mining.


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:53 The mining metrics that matter

10:33 More important metrics

19:24 Valuing AI and miners together

26:55 A note on Bitfarms

28:32 What does the market actually care about?

33:10 Thoughts on convertible debt

36:55 How to hedge convertible notes

45:31 Bigger narratives in mining 

48:10 The future of bitcoin mining and data centers

52:55 What metrics aren’t worthwhile?



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