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THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining News: Trump-Backed ABTC Goes Public, IREN Overpriced? And CORZ Deal Trouble

On today’s roundup, we have an ASIC market update from Luxor, plus American Bitcoin’s debut on public markets and why one investor wants to put the freeze on the Core Scientific-CoreWeave deal.

Sep 5, 2025
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, James McAvity, CEO of bitcoin miner Cormint, joins us to talk about a potential, looming existential crisis for Bitcoin: low transaction fee revenue. With transaction fees at only 2% of mining revenue, McAvity argues the current model is unsustainable as rewards halve every four years.

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**Notes:**

  • 50 % tariff on Chinese rigs
  • 22 % tariff on SE Asian rigs
  • Difficulty target for 1 ZH/s = 139.7 T hashes
  • Hash price ≈ $53.8 /TH/day
  • American Bitcoin surged to $13/share, fell to $6.38

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