The Mining Disrupt News Surge for Monday, June 15, 2026 opened in front of a Miami sunset backdrop, with the host counting down to the Mining Disrupt Expo in Miami, July 21 to 23, just over a month away. After the usual reminder that the show is for education and entertainment and not financial advice, he went over the numbers. Bitcoin was just under 64,000, a small creep up, which bought about 1,566 sats per dollar. Fees were still very low, with about 100,000 unconfirmed transactions. Hashrate had dipped, stretching average block times to a bit over 11 minutes, with a difficulty adjustment due in 167 blocks.
The theme of the week came next. On screen was a portrait of Guido Baldo, the Duke of Orbino. The host explained that the portrait had nothing to do with Bitcoin; he was using the name as a stand in for a friend and coworker, to keep him somewhat hidden. Guido, he said, does not understand money the way Bitcoiners do, and the host and another friend had been explaining to him why holding cash is not a great idea. His short version: if your savings go from $1,000 to $1,100 to $1,200, the number goes up, but the purchasing power of the dollar goes down because of inflation, debt and other factors. That, he said, is why the ultra wealthy do not keep their wealth in cash. They hold assets: stocks, property, collectibles, fine cars.
The Bitcoin Standard and the Case for Education
For Guido and anyone else, the host announced a series. Over the next ten or so weeks, he said, he would go through The Bitcoin Standard one chapter at a time, giving a quick one to two minute synopsis and his thoughts, starting with chapter one on money. He noted that Saifedean has the whole audiobook on YouTube for free, and said the book is less about Bitcoin than about money. He was clear that he was not telling anyone to buy Bitcoin. What he encourages, week after week, is to learn about money, so that if you do invest in Bitcoin or anything else, you have the mental tools to decide.
This is Guido Baldo, the Duke of Orbino.
Host · 1:43
Power Law Projections and the Psychology of the Market
Then the week's news. The host shared a chart from Stefan Laa, whom he described as a longtime Bitcoiner, showing power law end of year projections to 2035: about 152,000 by the end of 2026, 284,000 by the end of 2028, almost a million by the end of 2032 and over $1.5 million in 2035. Someone asked for the floor version of the same model, and the answer was about 100,000 at the end of 2026, about 200,000 at the end of 2028, just over half a million at the end of 2032 and a little under $1.5 million in 2035. The host's short and simple takeaway was that this thing is going up. These were projections from a chart, not forecasts the host made himself.
He then reflected on how much easier it is to read someone face to face than online. He read a post from Mr. Shift, who said he had spent more than two hours with Michael Saylor a couple of weeks earlier and came away thinking Saylor is a genius, always a few chess moves ahead, and has been for at least 35 years. The host pushed back a little: the post asked readers to watch the podcast, and watching is not the same as sitting across from someone. He said he has watched over a hundred hours of Saylor videos, trying to understand the man behind the company that has acquired more Bitcoin than anyone, and his conclusion from the other side of the screen was simple.
my gut tells me Mr. Sailor is no dummy
Host · 6:41
The France Problem: Physical Risks of Digital Wealth
The mood darkened with news from France, which the host said had become the world's center for so called wrench attacks: kidnappings and home invasions in which criminals force victims to transfer digital assets, with at least 41 crypto related kidnappings reported in a recent period. Operational security, he said, may be one of the most important things to get right in Bitcoin. He read a post from Mo of The Bitcoin Way: your exchange knows your name, address, ID, face and every transaction you have made, and if it is hacked, that data does not disappear, it gets sold. Your coins might be safe on a hardware wallet, the post said, but your identity is not, and the longer your data sits on an exchange, the bigger the target.
Before that, the host shared a meme from Cole Walmsley that he said needed no commentary. It runs through Bitcoin's past cycles: from 6 cents to 36 cents and back to 21 cents, from 85 cents to $29 and down to $3, up to $213 and down to $70, up to $1,100 and down to $239, and finally up to $126,000 and down to $64,000. The punchline, delivered deadpan, is that the moral of the story is don't buy Bitcoin.
SpaceX and the Signal of the Bottom
On corporate adoption, the host noted that SpaceX had just launched what he called the most successful IPO ever, and asked how many people buying in knew that SpaceX holds Bitcoin. He read a post from Wicked saying SpaceX now ranked sixth among the world's companies by market value.
roughly 6% of its corporate treasury is held in Bitcoin
Wicked · 9:14
He also read a post from a trader angry about a prediction market bet involving Michael Saylor, and said he keeps seeing more and more frustrated posts like it, which he took as a sign that if the market was not at the bottom, it was really close. He closed with a post from Mel saying that for the first time all year they were fully allocated, with no more cash. The host asked viewers whether they had any dry powder left to buy the dip, admitting he ran out a while ago. He still does his DCA with part of each paycheck, he said, but he has nothing left to add, and he was not sure whether this was the bottom.
He signed off by reminding Guido and everyone else that the Bitcoin Standard series would start the following week with chapter one, and that he would see viewers in Miami in about six weeks, introducing the speakers on stage. When this episode aired on June 15, 2026, Bitcoin traded at $66,190 by our reference price; on October 11, 2026 it was $83,082. The conversation continues at Mining Disrupt 2027, March 22 to 24 in Irving, Texas.