Matt, Charlie and Will discuss Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, from Bitmain’s large US operations to Ordinals marketcap projections to mining pools playing games with new transaction types. Senator Elizabeth Warren might even drop by! Watch a video version of the show here. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Start 00:01:54 Intro & Bitcoin Halving 00:03:27 Difficulty Adjustment  00:05:01 Bitmain & BitFuFu 00:07:08 New US ASIC Maker 00:10:07 Promising or Flop? 00:11:15 Ordinals Corner 00:15:31 Ordinals Hype Chart 00:18:33 Ordinals vs. ETH NFTs 00:20:15 Ordinals & Block Space 00:23:45 Ordinals: JPEGs for BTC? 00:26:16 Mining Fees & Ordinals 00:28:41 Bitcoin Pool Revenues 00:31:17 Pool Decentralization 00:33:20 Sen. Warren on Crypto 00:37:15 Wrapping Up 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 our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. 👉 Join our Bitcoin Halving party in Denver, Colorado on April 20th!  👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.