The Mining Disrupt News Surge for Monday, January 6, 2025 ended on a date. The host told viewers that on January 20, two weeks after the episode went out, the world could switch to a Bitcoin standard, and that people would look back and see the signs had been in plain view. Most of the nine-minute episode built toward that call: a week of headlines, a New Year's party in Miami, a reply from Michael Saylor, and a closing question about what Saylor might know.
It was a studio show, not a conference session. The host opened with a clip of the comedian Sam Hyde telling viewers to buy Bitcoin, gave the usual note that the show is for entertainment and education and is not financial advice, and plugged the Mining Disrupt Expo in Fort Lauderdale, March 25 to 27.
The numbers on Saturday, January 4
He recorded on Saturday the 4th and read out that day's price, then counted a bit over 20,000 public nodes (20,281), blocks arriving every 9 minutes and 45 seconds, and an average hashrate of almost 800 exahashes per second, a figure he called massive. Fees he skipped with a joke. For the record, Bitcoin closed January 6 at $99,219.
Corporate treasuries and a satellite
Monday's item was a post listing more than 70 public companies holding close to 600,000 bitcoin, with private companies adding more. The host asked company owners watching whether their business holds Bitcoin, and if not, why not. Then he made his first forecast of the episode: by the end of 2025, companies would hold more than 1 million bitcoin between them.
Tuesday's item came from Blockstream. Its satellite service was back to full strength, with Telstar 11N coverage restored for Europe and Africa, new frequencies, an improved interface and better API support. The pitch is that a node can keep receiving blocks with no internet connection. The host called using Bitcoin with a satellite kit really cool and pointed viewers to the details in the description.
The case against invading for bitcoin
Wednesday brought a Daniel Batten story he called a feel-good piece: Bitcoin mining as an unexpected tool for easing tensions between countries and for offsetting higher energy costs. It led him to an argument he had heard before, that a nation holding a large stack of bitcoin might invite an invasion.
no that doesn't work with Bitcoin because it's an intangible thing that you can just move around
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 3:18
His reasoning: a government can send its coins to an ally on the other side of the world almost instantly and for almost nothing, so there is nothing for an invader to seize. Remove the prize, he said, and you get more cooperation between states, not less.
Eric Trump, Saylor and Mar-a-Lago
He called the next item the big story of the week. On January 2, Eric Trump posted a picture captioned "two friends, one passion, Bitcoin" with a rocket and a tag for Saylor. Saylor's reply, as read on air:
Michael sailor replying to this says Bitcoin is on the menu at Mar Al Lago
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 3:53
He held his view of it for later. The week closed with two short posts he read out. Friday's: Bitcoin is for enemies, which he took to mean you do not have to like your enemies, or like that they own Bitcoin. Saturday's, from Nico: make sure you have more Bitcoin today than the day before, and everything else is noise.
The $100,000 party
The opinion section started with the New Year's party in Miami celebrating Bitcoin's $100,000 price, with Saylor and others in attendance. He said he had not been invited and asked to be on the list next time. Critics on X had attacked some of the guests, with words such as grifter and scammer. His answer was that it does not matter: good money pulls the weaker monies into it, the way a black hole does, and that is the whole subject of the show.
He took the same line on politics. Some people dislike Trump and his side so much they might call them enemies, he said, at least politically. His view was that it makes no difference which side of the aisle you are on, because in Bitcoin everybody benefits.
Every holder is a node
He came back to the Sam Hyde clip without unpacking it and moved to connections. He said he dislikes the word networking, but the point stands: people with connections get further, and that is why some say school is now mostly about meeting people.
every individual that has Bitcoin is in a sense a node
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 6:30
The more nodes, users and Lightning channels there are, he argued, the better off each holder is, and the better the world will be when everyone uses what he called good, hard, sound money.
T-minus two weeks
Then the question he had been building to. Did Saylor, with his connections, know something about Trump's plans that viewers did not? Was that why he bought as much Bitcoin as he could through December?
that in less than 2 weeks on the 20th the world changes to a Bitcoin standard
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 7:39
He named the people he said had been telling everyone: Senator Lummis, Dennis Porter, Eric Trump, Saylor, and Trump himself appearing at a Bitcoin event. In his view, all that was missing was ink on a signed page making a strategic reserve real. He closed by predicting a golden renaissance built on the hardest money ever known, starting in two weeks.
What happened next
January 20 came and went without a Bitcoin standard. Six weeks later, on March 6, 2025, the White House announced an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. The fact sheet says the reserve is funded with bitcoin forfeited in criminal or civil cases, and that it does not buy more at taxpayer cost. So the signed page arrived, but it held seized coins, not a new monetary standard.
The price went the other way from his tone. Bitcoin was $99,219 on January 6, 2025. On October 27, 2026 it was $80,821, roughly a fifth lower. The talk now reads as a record of how the industry felt in the first week of 2025: certain, connected and counting down. These questions come back at Mining Disrupt 2027, March 22 to 24 in Irving, Texas.