Bitcoin Mining Insurance and Risk Mitigation
On March 31, 2025, the Build-a-Mine Podcast featured guest David Garr discussing how tailored insurance and robust risk management practices can protect Bitcoin mining operations.
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Bitcoin: Redefining Value Beyond Fiat
The March 31, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Nova Podcast with Jeevs explores how Bitcoin challenges fiat money through enhanced financial literacy, decentralization, and education. The conversation intertwines Zen philosophy, technological disruption, and personal awakening to reframe monetary value.
Vancouver's New Bitcoin Fiscal Strategy
On March 31, 2025, the Bitcoin for Millennials podcast featured Vancouver's Mayor Ken Sim discussing plans to integrate Bitcoin into its financial framework as a hedge against fiat debasement and a catalyst for economic renewal.
USA Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Policy
The April 01, 2025 episode of Coin Stories featuring Senator Cynthia Lummis explores converting gold certificates into Bitcoin to reduce national debt and drive regulatory reform.
Bitcoin Savings: Community Transformation in Thailand
The April 01, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast with guest Jimmy Kostro explores how saving a modest 5% in Bitcoin can yield transformative financial benefits and foster community empowerment.
Bitcoin Financialization: Capital & Collateral Dynamics
On March 31, 2025, the What Bitcoin Did episode with Peter Dunworth explored how financial engineering and innovative lending products could drive massive capital inflows into Bitcoin.
Bitcoin in China: Navigating Control & Change
On February 25, 2025, The Transformation of Value podcast featured Roger Huang discussing Bitcoin’s role amid China’s state-led techno nationalism and historic economic trends.
Bitcoin mining
Bitcoin mining using landfill gas - model code
Python code replicates results and reproduces Figures from Rudd et al. 2024. An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production
Bitcoin Mining at the Energy Edge
The July 7, 2026 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Stephen Barbour describing Bitcoin mining as flexible load for upstream energy production.
Chapter 04. Bitcoin mining: when energy becomes commitment
Here is the June 2026 draft of chapter 04 in my forthcoming new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Click here for a downloadable pdf version. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd.
Introduction
Envision a Bitcoin mining operation – a specialized, energy-intensive data
Off-Grid Bitcoin Mining and Data Sovereignty
The February 27, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Way features HODL Tarantula explaining how modular, off-grid Bitcoin mining infrastructure monetizes stranded energy while avoiding grid and regulatory chokepoints.
Gold, Silver and Bitcoin in a $350T Debt World
The February 24, 2026 episode of Kitco News features Frank Holmes assessing how a $350 trillion global debt overhang is reshaping demand for gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Awareness, Calendars, and Real Ownership
The February 20, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Way features TC explaining how his Timechain Calendar project visualizes Bitcoin’s blocks, difficulty adjustments, and supply dynamics.
Monetizing the Megawatt: Bitcoin Mining in the Age of AI
The February 17, 2026 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Rob Warren discussing how AI data center demand is reshaping Bitcoin mining economics and grid relationships.
Macro trends
Gold, Silver and Bitcoin in a $350T Debt World
The February 24, 2026 episode of Kitco News features Frank Holmes assessing how a $350 trillion global debt overhang is reshaping demand for gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
Safe Havens, Gold, and Custody Risk in Bitcoin
The February 23, 2026 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features Michael Tanguma assessing whether Bitcoin’s sharp drawdown reflects broken fundamentals or a temporary dislocation.
Bitcoin, Gold and the Global Liquidity Cycle
The February 24, 2026 episode of the Archie Podcast features Andre Dragosch analyzing why Bitcoin has halved from its October 2025 peak despite strong institutional demand and continued global liquidity.
AI Deflation and the Repricing of Growth
The February 22, 2026 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast features Jordi arguing that artificial intelligence is structurally repricing growth assets across public and private markets.
Japan’s Bitcoin Treasury Bridge
The February 20, 2026 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features Phil Geiger outlining how Metaplanet channels Japan’s $15 trillion retirement and savings pool toward Bitcoin.
Bitcoin’s Disappointing Cycle and the Path to Renewed Demand
The February 17, 2026 episode of Coin Stories features Lyn Alden arguing that Bitcoin’s latest cycle underperformed because topline demand remained weak despite supportive liquidity signals.
Gold Repricing, Bond Fragility, and Scarce Asset Rotation
The January 28, 2026 episode of the Scarce Assets podcast features Jeroen Blokland explaining why gold’s move toward $5,000 reflects a structural repricing driven by debt rollover dynamics, central bank intervention, and geopolitical stress.