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THE MINING POD: Tether Sues Swan, Gov’t Blacklists Sophgo, and Pool Transaction Censorship

THE MINING POD: Tether Sues Swan, Gov’t Blacklists Sophgo, and Pool Transaction Censorship

Update: 2025-01-17
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Colin and Will cover the Tether and Swan Bitcoin lawsuit and other news on this week’s roundup.


Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Will dig into Tether’s lawsuit against Swan Bitcoin, the latest development in a now two-front legal dispute over the companies’ bitcoin mining joint venture. Plus, the U.S. government is issuing trade restrictions against Sophgo, a Chinese computer chip company helmed by Bitmain CEO Micree Zhan, and F2Pool might be filtering transactions from OFAC-sanctioned Bitcoin addresses again. And finally, for this week’s cry corner, a Bitcoin mining company’s guerrilla sales tactic to get Ethereum DeFi platform AAVE to invest its treasury into bitcoin mining.  


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:30 Difficulty report

04:49 Tether sues Swan

16:14 BitFuFu Plans Oklahoma Mine

24:52 F2Pool Censoring TXs

33:37 Cry corner: AAVE to mine BTC?


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THE MINING POD: Tether Sues Swan, Gov’t Blacklists Sophgo, and Pool Transaction Censorship

THE MINING POD: Tether Sues Swan, Gov’t Blacklists Sophgo, and Pool Transaction Censorship