Crusoe / Upstream Data Patent Ruling, Lancium’s Stargate Deal, and 2024 Year-in-Review
For this week’s mining news, a surprising decision on Crusoe and Upstream Data’s patent dispute and more.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, the gang covers news that Blockspace broke regarding a surprising mixed decision in Crusoe and Upstream Data’s patent dispute. Plus, Lancium gets in on the Project Stargate action with a 1.2 GW AI campus, a data recap from Hashrate Index’s 2024 Year-in-Review, and TSMC is fabbing ASIC chips for Bitdeer’s SEALMINER series in the U.S.A. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, scammers hijack Riot Platform’s X account to lure folks into the Solana memecoin casino.
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