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.

Chapter Markers:00:00:00 Start00:01:45 Foreman ad00:02:28 Sponsor message00:02:52 Introductions00:03:50 Bitcoin Halving update00:05:12 Bitcoin Cash price surge00:09:08 Bitcoin Cash mining revenue00:11:23 Bitcoin Cash blockchain growth00:13:41 Big blocks in Bitcoin00:17:35 Mining pool distribution00:20:40 Mining pool payout analysis00:25:53 ASIC breakeven power costs00:28:50 ASIC fingerprinting methodology00:34:20 Bitcoin energy consumption00:35:58 Mining & grid load balancing00:38:50 Average network efficiency00:41:52 CleanSpark's on-chain data00:45:53 Miner market cap dominance00:49:01 Miner stocks vs. Bitcoin in 2024

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