THE MINING POD: The 2025 Hashies: Introducing Blockspace’s Annual Awards Show

For the final Mining Pod of 2025, we inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show. Catch the latest Blockspace documentary, The Bitcoin Professor, on YouTube! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Charlie and Colin proudly inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show for the best and worst in Bitcoin for that year. The winners of this year’s Hashies, in order of appearance, are as follows: Most Ascendant BTC Mining CEO: Daniel Roberts Most Ascendant Crypto CEO: Shayne Coplan Best Deal of the Year: CRWV<>CORZ (because of – not despite – its falling though) Worst Deal of the Year: RIOT<>BITF takeover bid Best Investor Cult: IREN Worst Investor Cult: MARA Biggest Crashout: Luke Dashjr Most REKT Crypto Play: Memecoins Most REKT Equity Play: BTC Treasury Companies / DATs Best Prediction: Valentine Rousseau’s 2025 Hashrate Projection Worst Prediction: Every gigabull BTC price target Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:58 Most Ascendent CEO Bitcoin Mining 05:14 Most Ascendent CEO Crypto 07:24 Best Deal of 2025 10:08 Worst Deal of 2025 12:39 Best Investor Cult 14:07 Worst Investor Cult 16:50 Biggest Crash Out 23:20 Most REKT Crypto 29:00 Most REKT Equity 31:27 Best Prediction 33:25 Worst Prediction 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!