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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Charlie and Colin proudly inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show for the best and worst in Bitcoin for that year. The winners of this year’s Hashies, in order of appearance, are as follows:
- Most Ascendant BTC Mining CEO: Daniel Roberts
- Most Ascendant Crypto CEO: Shayne Coplan
- Best Deal of the Year: CRWV<>CORZ (because – not despite – it fell though)
- Worst Deal of the Year: RIOT<>BITF takeover bid
- Best Investor Cult: IREN
- Worst Investor Cult: MARA
- Biggest Crashout: Luke Dashjr
- Most REKT Crypto Play: Memecoins
- Most REKT Equity Play: BTC Treasury Companies / DATs
- Best Prediction: Valentine Rousseau’s 2025 Hashrate Projection
- Worst Prediction: Every gigabull BTC price target
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:58 Most Ascendent CEO Bitcoin Mining
05:14 Most Ascendent CEO Crypto
07:24 Best Deal of 2025
10:08 Worst Deal of 2025
12:39 Best Investor Cult
14:07 Worst Investor Cult
16:50 Biggest Crash Out
23:20 Most REKT Crypto
29:00 Most REKT Equity
31:27 Best Prediction
33:25 Worst Prediction
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