American Bitcoin is gunning to go public via a merger with Gryphon Digital.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Recording live from Consensus in Toronto, Colin and Will break down American Bitcoin's aspirations to go public via merger with Gryphon Digital. Plus, IREN’s $100M tariff spat with U.S. officials, Bitdeer’s deployment of SEALMINERs in April., and CleanSpark's bitcoin-option strategy for its latest Bitmain purchase.

# Notes:

- Hash rate down to 867 exahashes/second

- 2.6% difficulty adjustment expected

- Hash price rebounded to $55/PH/day

- American Bitcoin merger to go public

- IREN facing $100M potential tariff cost

- CleanSpark ASIC miner bitcoin option

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:19 Difficulty Report by Luxor

03:39 Trump, American Bitcoin & Griffin Digital

09:22 Iren & tariffs

12:51 Bitdeer deploys Seal Miners

16:12 Cleanspark buying miners with BTC

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