Podcasts: Bitcoin Mining’s Q1 Numbers With Parker Merritt 🔗 13 days ago

Parker Merritt from Coin Metrics and Will Foxley discuss key metrics, trends, and insights in Bitcoin mining. Topics include mining pools, hash rate, transaction fees, hardware fingerprinting, energy consumption, miner efficiency, and the performance of publicly traded mining stocks.

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00:00:00 Start

00:01:45 Foreman ad

00:02:28 Sponsor message

00:02:52 Introductions

00:03:50 Bitcoin Halving update

00:05:12 Bitcoin Cash price surge

00:09:08 Bitcoin Cash mining revenue

00:11:23 Bitcoin Cash blockchain growth

00:13:41 Big blocks in Bitcoin

00:17:35 Mining pool distribution

00:20:40 Mining pool payout analysis

00:25:53 ASIC breakeven power costs

00:28:50 ASIC fingerprinting methodology

00:34:20 Bitcoin energy consumption

00:35:58 Mining & grid load balancing

00:38:50 Average network efficiency

00:41:52 CleanSpark's on-chain data

00:45:53 Miner market cap dominance

00:49:01 Miner stocks vs. Bitcoin in 2024

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