Energy, Hashrate, and the Rise of Wild Sats
The November 23, 2025 episode of the Brandon Gentile Podcast features Kent Halliburton explaining how Bitcoin mining is evolving into a flexible grid asset and a tool for financial self-custody.
Bitcoin mining
Covers evidence, perspectives, and analysis on mining economics, energy systems, hardware trends, industrial scaling, geographic shifts, and miner-driven risks or opportunities surfaced in podcast discussions.
Mining’s Hidden Centralization and the Energy Narrative
The November 22, 2025 episode of the Mr. M Podcast features Kristian Csepcsar explaining how Bitcoin mining’s simple mechanics intersect with complex energy, centralization, and financial realities.
Difficulty, Fees, and the Squeeze on Bitcoin Miners
The November 21, 2025 episode of McNallie Money features Kaan Farahani and Anthony Power dissecting October Bitcoin mining data and sector trends.
Bitdeer’s Pivot from Pure Mining to Integrated Compute Infrastructure
The November 20, 2025 episode of the The Mining Pod features Haris Basit outlining Bitdeer’s strategy to pair large-scale Bitcoin mining with AI and high-performance computing infrastructure.
From $10 Coins to a Global Bitcoin Mining Arms Race
The November 20, 2025 episode of Supply Shock features Bill Tai and George Kikvadze recounting how Bitfury grew from a scattered engineering collective into one of the first industrial-scale Bitcoin miners.
Leveraging Bitcoin Miners as Flexible Load Resources for Power System Stability and Efficiency
We focus on the emergence of Bitcoin mining as an important feature for industrial-scale demand response, making use of miners’ inherent characteristics of interruptibility and swift response to enhance grid flexibility.
100 Important Questions about Bitcoin’s Energy Use and ESG Impacts
The breadth of knowledge required to answer key questions highlights the need to build research capacity, encourage collaborative cross-sectoral and -disciplinary research, and develop a prioritized research agenda.