Oct Miner Updates, MARA M&A, Mining in Ethiopia, and Block’s Proto ASIC 

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Colin, Will, and Matt are back with this week’s meatiest mining headlines. October updates are in for public bitcoin miners, so the gang covers the highs (and lows) of the first month of Q4. They also cover MARA’s 8-figure acquisition of three mining sites in Ohio. Plus, an update on Bitcoin mining in Ethiopia, which is reportedly netting the country’s power authority ~$55 million in business with roughly 2-3% of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate in the country. And for the final news item, an update from Block’s Proto team on its forthcoming bitcoin mining ASIC – oh, and this week’s cry corner, in which *checks notes* legacy media pundits are still comparing Bitcoin to the dot com bubble’s defunct early movers…

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