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Jul 25
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THE MINING POD: How the BBB Affects BTC ...

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What miners need to know about tax changes in the Big Beautiful Bill, plus a 4.5 GW update on Project Stargate and last week’s record $4.39 billion inflows into BTC and ETH exchange-traded products.


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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, and Matt discuss Antalpha’s CEO becoming the chair of Cango, how the Big Beautiful Bill affects bitcoin miners, OpenAI and Oracle’s 4.5GW datacenter plans, last week’s record crypto ETF inflows of $4.39B, and Joe McCann's Solana treasury SPAC.



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**Notes:**

• Hashprice stable at $60/hash/day

• Antalpha CEO now chair of Cango 

• BBB allows 100% equipment depreciation 

• OpenAI and Oracle plan 4.5GW data center

• $4.39B crypto ETF inflows weekly


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

04:59 Anatalpha CEO → Cango chairman

13:02 BBB impact on Bitcoin miners

22:06 Fractal Bitcoin

22:45 $4.39B in flows last week

25:53 Stargate OpenAI<>Oracle 4.5 GW

29:10 SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project

36:33 Joe Mcann’s fails after 80% drop



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