The Mining Disrupt News Surge episode for Monday, October 27, 2025 arrived a few days before Halloween and, more importantly to the host, two weeks and a couple of days before the Mining Disrupt Expo in Texas. The host suggested that a ticket is more than worth the price, especially for anyone interested in touring a Bitcoin mining facility at the biggest scale. Liking and subscribing, the host added, takes a second and costs nothing.
Texas, the host said, does things big. The state is big, the host joked, and so are the people, and and its mining operations are massive enough to blow most others around the world out of the water. As always, the show is for education and entertainment, not financial advice, and the host apologized for sounding a little under the weather.
Then the numbers. Bitcoin was at 110,000, priority fees were still low, unconfirmed transactions stood at 53,000 and public nodes looked great. When this episode was posted, Bitcoin traded at $115,370; on October 12, 2026 it was $83,316.
Are You Running a Node?
Speaking of nodes, the host asked viewers whether they run one. The host runs Knots, for some very big reasons, but said viewers can do whatever they like. What matters is contributing to the network. In one sense you are already a node when you talk about Bitcoin and share what you know, but the host also wants viewers to actually run one.
Signals From Washington
First up was a post from Bo Hines, the former crypto czar, whom the host enjoys following. It showed a chart shooting up and to the right alongside a clip of President Trump telling a reporter they know nothing about crypto.
The host anticipated the reaction: who cares, it is just an emoji of a rising price and Trump saying some stuff. The answer, the host said, is to zoom out. The host sees people get upset when Dennis Porter makes an announcement, or an announcement of an announcement, and understands the frustration.
What many people want, the host included, is for the Bitcoin castle to be built in an afternoon: for Gavin Newsom and every mayor and politician to suddenly decide Bitcoin is the best possible thing, as if someone flipped a Thomas Massie switch in their heads. That would be great, the host said, but it is not what we are going to get.
What we are going to get, and if you are paying attention, it's what we have been getting are small victories.
The host · 2:46
One example came from Conner Brown, who posted that his announcement would go out at 10:00 a.m. and that Washington's future is bright. The announcement, on Tuesday, was that he is now head of strategy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
The host acknowledged that some viewers will say it does not matter, and that what they really want is a de minimis tax exemption so they can buy anything with Bitcoin without worrying about taxes. The host wants that too, but said that is not how things happen.
Turning a Cargo Ship
To explain, the host recalled a tour at Valve and something Gabe Newell said that has stuck with the host for years. Asked why Valve did not simply make a change people were requesting, Newell compared the company to a huge steamliner or cargo ship. An individual is like a small dinghy and can turn on a dime: uninstall a game, quit something, change course. A massive company has contracts and plans in the pipeline and cannot.
So you have to take small victories for what they are, the host said: victories.
Another came from Senator Cynthia Lummis, who shared a photo of a working lunch with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. A picture like that would have been unimaginable about three years earlier, the host said. The detail that stood out was her caption, tick tock, a phrase Bitcoiners use. Anyone who has heard Lummis speak knows she understands Bitcoin far better than most people in Washington, and the host read the post as people saying things without quite saying them. The host joked that she certainly understands it better than the host's own parents. Small victories, the host repeated.
One Bitcoin, One Ticket
The host closed with a post from an account called MD Bitcoin, and joked about whether that meant Mining Disrupt before learning it stands for money, Bitcoin and medicine. The post argued that owning one Bitcoin does not feel like much only because people are still thinking in dollars.
It only feels small because you're early.
MD Bitcoin · 5:57
The post went on to say that holding one Bitcoin means owning one of 21 million units of digital property, a ticket to the other side of the monetary reset. It is one entire share of the hardest asset ever created, the post said, one piece of freedom that can move anywhere at any time without permission. The host noted that Jack Mallers makes the same point week after week: we are in the middle of a big monetary regime change.
For the host, the most important thing anyone can do is store their time and energy in something that protects it, and Bitcoin is hands down the best option the host knows. The host urged viewers to keep learning about Bitcoin and the world's monetary order, a crazy rabbit hole, to subscribe, and to get to the Mining Disrupt Expo.