Over 200,000 transactions were waiting in the mempool when the Mining Disrupt News Surge opened its September 29, 2025 episode, and the host said it was the most he had seen in about three months. Fees had followed: a priority rate of eight sats and four sats for no priority at all. The hashrate, he said, was flying, and public nodes stood at about 23,000. Bitcoin itself had dipped to around $109,000.
The episode was recorded on the Friday before, September 26, and ran a little over nine minutes. It came out about seven weeks ahead of the second Mining Disrupt Expo in Dallas, held November 11 to 13, 2025, and the host said the Texas news he was saving for the end explained why the show was going there. As always, he framed the show as financial entertainment and education, not advice.
A mempool backlog and a busy network
Over 200,000 unconfirmed transactions in the [mempool], which means that the fees are climbing.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 1:04
He did not offer a cause for the backlog. He read the numbers off the screen, noted the dip in price and moved on to the week's posts on X.
A lottery prize and the cost of waiting
The first post came from Trey Sellers, who called a lottery story "the most depressing thing I've seen on X" and said personal finance education was "absolutely wrecked." A winner in Montreal had chosen $1,000 a week over a $1 million lump sum.
The host walked through why that looks sensible at first. Taxes might cut the lump sum to half or a third; call it $300,000, he said, against a little over 19 years of weekly payments. His objection was inflation.
Do you honestly think that in the year 2045, 2044 that her $300,000 is going to buy her the same amount of stuff as it does today?
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 2:12
His answer was no. In his view she would have done better to take the lump sum and buy what he called one of the scarcest assets in the world. He followed it with a post from Orange Peel Pod Nikki: the move is owning Bitcoin, not trading it.
Cycles, charts and a prediction that missed
He was less sure about the halving cycles that post leaned on. He said he was not certain they were ever really a thing, and he returned more than once to an old rule of the markets: past performance does not tell you what comes next. Confirmation bias, he warned, is real.
He checked one prediction against the calendar. On September 22, Hermes Lux had posted that Congress was likely to report a bipartisan agreement on how much Bitcoin the US government would buy over a number of years, and how the Treasury would buy it. By September 23, nothing had come. "No, we did not," the host said. He thought the bigger White House story was what President Trump wanted the Fed to do: lower interest rates, which in his view would lift Bitcoin.
A post from Mitchell Askew called $109,000 a dip and said "Laughable." The host agreed and said he was going long, then repeated that he was only reading the post and that none of it was advice. His own technical analysis, he said, was to look at the price on the day he recorded.
It is $109,044.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 5:37
Why the expo is going to Texas
The last item was the one he had promised. Texas, he said, is not the expo's home for the cows, the cowboy hats or the Alamo; it is the heart of Bitcoin mining. He then read a post on the physical scale of Stargate, the data center project of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
The physical scale of Open AI, Oracle, SoftBank, Stargate is simply mindblowing.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 6:12
The post said the Abilene site and new projects in Shackelford and Milam counties needed an estimated three gigawatts combined so far, with at least seven gigawatts of expansion announced nationwide. Its primary power source, it said, is the Texas grid, and the 1.4-gigawatt Abilene facility is fully integrated with ERCOT, drawing on natural gas, wind and solar.
The host's case: miners steadied the grid
The post did not mention Bitcoin, and the host said so three times. The link was his own argument. He pointed back to the 2021 Texas power crisis and asked why nothing like it had made news since. His answer was the amount of the country's Bitcoin mining based in Texas.
They have stabilized the grid.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 7:16
A project on Stargate's scale, he argued, goes where the power will be there, and in his view Bitcoin mining is part of why it is in Texas.
You do not do something like this of this scale in a place where the power grid is going to fail on a regular basis.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 7:55
AI wants energy, he said, and so does Bitcoin. The episode gave no grid data to test the claim; it is the host's reading of the post, not a finding from it.
Then and now
He closed by telling viewers to zoom out, put their "patience pants" on and step away from the X echo chamber. Bitcoin closed at $112,143 on September 29, 2025, the day the episode aired. On October 27, 2026 it was $80,473.
Mining Disrupt 2027 runs March 22 to 24 in Irving, Texas.