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ASIC Border Seizures, Tencent’s BTC Mining Exposure, Miners Double Down on AI
By Blockspace Media
Aired Feb 14, 2025 · 37m · Last boosted Feb 15, 2025
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You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 8,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Matt talk about the big story Blockspace broke this week: the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing Antminer ASICs at ports of entry, and it’s also started to detain MicroBT and Canaan units. Plus, the $500 billion Chinese tech giant Tencent ups its stake in newly-christened public bitcoin miner Cango to 15.6%. They also touch on Bit Digital’s WhiteFiber AI reb...
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