THE MINING POD: August Miner Updates, Japan’s Largest Utility is Mining BTC, Fractal Bitcoin’s Feverish First Week, and Podcasts on the Blockchain (?)

We’ve got a mixed bag of news for y’all in this week’s news roundup, including public miner operational updates from August, Japan’s largest power company mining bitcoin, Fractal Bitcoin’s rip-roaring first week, and the intersection of alternative history and shitcoinery (yes really). Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Will and Colin hop on for another duo pod this week for one of the most eclectic roundups yet. The numbers are in for August for the public bitcoin mining world, and these companies are slowly (but steadily) expanding their hashrate, while also collectively selling more than 1,200 BTC over the month. In a testament to bitcoin mining’s utility for utilities, Japan’s largest power company, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), is mining bitcoin with a portion of its renewable energy assets. Finally, the lads breakdown the juicy details of sidechain Fractal Bitcoin’s first week. And in this week’s cry corne – in which Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) gets BSV-pilled – they touch on the irony of an alternative historian storing his podcasts on a blockchain launched by a man who tried rewriting the history of Bitcoin. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:05 Difficulty update 05:03 August miner updates 11:29 Tokyo mining BTC! 17:49 Fractal Bitcoin update 25:12 Cry Corner: Darryl Cooper BSV pilled 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! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our hosts on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! - "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.