The Mining Disrupt News Surge episode for December 8, 2025 opened less than a month from the new year, with the host predicting that 2026 will be even crazier than a big 2025. As always, the show is for entertainment and education, not financial advice.
The host looked back on the year: the channel was closing in on 4,000 subscribers, having grown by about 3,000 since the host joined, and meeting viewers in person in Fort Lauderdale and then in Texas about a month earlier had been a highlight. Next up is Miami, July 21 through 23, which the host expects to be the biggest one yet.
Then the numbers. Bitcoin had just dipped about 4 grand from the low to mid 90s to $89,319. The host was surprised to see priority fees displayed with decimals, 1.5 and 0.2, something not seen before. Public nodes were just shy of 25,000, hashrate was still in the zettahash range and a little over 55,000 transactions were waiting unconfirmed. When this episode was posted, Bitcoin traded at $91,966; on October 11, 2026 it was $83,079.
A Builder Worth Following
The host likes to highlight accounts that are not getting much attention. This week it was A Thousand Acres Ranch, a channel with about 4,700 subscribers whose creator is building solar mining equipment and grinding away with his nose to the millstone.
His post set the tone: he is not here for money or for the kind of friends who would stab you in the back, but to drop innovation that will revolutionize the industry. The host called that exactly the kind of attitude that drew the host into Bitcoin. Maybe not quite as abrasive, the host said, but that energy of having a vision and doing it regardless of what anyone else says is part of what makes Bitcoin so resilient. A reply from Kent Halliburton, "Satoshi on brother," echoed the same feeling.
Why the Dips Happen
Why had the price dropped back below 90,000? The host pointed to a post from Eric Weiss calling it another orchestrated dump by manipulators who are not winning, only delaying the inevitable.
In the host's opinion, part of the reason for dips like this is that large institutions try to scare people out of their Bitcoin, like a jump scare that makes holders panic and sell for fear of losing more. The host stressed that this is only one piece of the puzzle, not the whole picture.
That is why the host keeps urging people to understand what Bitcoin is before they spend even 10 cents on it, which at the time bought about 50 sats. The host would not tell anyone to put money into Magic: The Gathering cards, car parts or RAM without knowing what they are, and Bitcoin is no different. You should not just throw money at anything.
Deep Cold Is a Gift to Miners
Then came something that looked out of left field: a weather forecast. A post from meteorologist Brady Harris, from December 3, warned that the bottom was falling out in the Midwest, with lows that could challenge records, dropping as low as minus 20, and wind chills of minus 30 to minus 35 in places.
For anyone who understands Bitcoin, the host said, the meaning is obvious: turn the ASICs on. In weather like that miners do not pay for cooling, because nature does it for them, and machines can run flat out. Some setups might even need extra heat, though a good system should handle the cold without trouble.
The host also noted that this is deep oil country. At Mining Disrupt in Texas, the host had talked with a man who left a lucrative job in the medical industry about ten years earlier to go mining in one of the Dakotas. If he is still tapped into the energy systems out there, the host said, he is mining pretty right now.
Tether and the Value You Cannot Measure
The host then pointed viewers to a segment of about seven minutes, starting around the 1 hour and 8 minute mark, of the latest Jack Mallers podcast, which discusses Japan and something extremely important about Tether and stablecoins.
The host's own angle was different. Why do Nvidia, Apple and Microsoft show up in the news again and again, but not Tether? Because they make products. Something does not need a physical, tangible container to be extremely valuable.
To explain, the host recalled a line heard somewhere: the things worth measuring are not measurable, and the things you can measure are not as worth measuring. A pen has a length of about three and a half inches, a diameter and a weight. The love the host has for a spouse, or the feelings carried by what someone writes with that pen, cannot be measured, and they matter far more.
Nobody Can Send a Letter for Bitcoin
The episode closed on a post from an account called Untraceable, mocking a company behind a supposedly permissionless money for sending a cease and desist letter to a critic. The host found the idea laughable when applied to Bitcoin. There is no board, no address and no company to send such a letter. Bitcoin just is, the host said, much like the internet itself could never send you a cease and desist. The host signed off looking forward to 2026 and to Miami.