The Mining Disrupt News Surge for Monday, March 31, 2025 spent most of its nine minutes on one company: GameStop, which was adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet. The host had just come back from the Mining Disrupt expo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and said that what he overheard there left him more bullish than before. As on every episode, he said the show is for entertainment and education, not financial advice.
The network check
Before the news, the host read the network numbers. Bitcoin was at $83,000 and change. Fees were low, and fewer than a thousand transactions were waiting, so a new one would be added to a block quickly. Hashrate, he said, had climbed sharply over the past six months and might be at an all-time high, or close to it. His summary was that everything was running about as well as it could.
Backstage at Fort Lauderdale
He called the Fort Lauderdale expo "the most organized, most well-run, most enjoyable event of this type that I have ever been to." Working the stage, he said, he caught pieces of conversations among people who move tens or hundreds of millions of dollars: a sentence, a few words, a nod, a handshake. He was not part of those conversations. One remark came from a prominent Bitcoiner he would not name, talking about how fast things are going to change, and he said he could share only some of what he heard.
Information asymmetry
The first post he read argued that boomers captured real estate and rigged that market, while millennials and younger generations have Bitcoin, "the greatest asset of all time," and boomers do not care about it. The post's advice was to use that information asymmetry instead of complaining about it. The host called the asymmetry a major deal.
He then passed on a story he said he had heard but could not confirm: that Donald Trump began going on large podcasts, such as Theo Von's and Joe Rogan's, because his son Barron told him that tens of millions of people watch them and that he had to get in front of that audience. The host's point was the direction of influence. The younger generation talks to the older one, and the older one says yes.
The reason I mention this is because that's how change happens.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 3:31
He said the same is true of Bitcoin, with millennials and zoomers, "whatever they're called these days," talking to their parents and grandparents. He asked listeners to take that idea and mull it over before he moved to GameStop.
Seven reasons, and the one that matters
The Bitcoin Therapist's post listed seven reasons for buying GameStop stock: a clear Bitcoin treasury strategy, Ryan Cohen's track record, over $4 billion sitting in cash, a die-hard holder base, the signal to other companies, the potential for outsized returns, and a possible rebrand or new business model. The host singled out the fifth, the signal to other companies.
James Lavish made the same point: "It's not that GME is adding Bitcoin to its treasury. It's that GME has become the next company to realize the value of adding Bitcoin to its treasury." Another poster mocked the armchair analysts lecturing GameStop holders, writing that "the least informed are the most confident."
The host tied the theme back to Bo Hines, whom he had covered the week before as one of the key architects of the Trump administration's crypto and Bitcoin program, and who he said is only 29. Younger people, in his telling, are now in those positions. He also read a post from JAN3, the company led by Samson Mow, saying hyperbitcoinization is inevitable and there is no rush. The host agreed that listeners could sit back, but said they could also position themselves for what is coming.
MicroStrategy's chart
He showed a chart from a post that called it possibly the most overlooked story on Wall Street in the last four and a half years, asking why no mainstream outlet had covered it. In the chart, MSTR was up 2,526%. The next closest, Nvidia, was at 898%, about a third of that, followed by Bitcoin and then Tesla. "MicroStrategy is showing people what they can do," the host said, and GameStop would be next.
When the dam breaks
He recalled how GameStop was all over the news a few years ago and asked listeners to picture that coverage again, this time with the word Bitcoin in every story. In his telling, people who thought Bitcoin would die, or that it was boiling the ocean, would start asking why they keep rental properties that need upkeep, good tenants and taxes, when they could hold billions of dollars in their heads.
And once they realize that dam will blow open.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 7:35
He pointed to Michael Saylor, who he said had talked with Ryan Cohen about a month earlier and shared a picture with the words "Welcome to team Bitcoin." Now GameStop was adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet. He compared the spread to a network: once enough nodes, or people, connect, it would be like a brain turning on across the whole world.
The pitch
The host closed on the expo. His argument was that people on the sidelines simply watch these changes play out, while people in the game who know the other players are set, and that those connections are made in person at events such as Mining Disrupt.
Generationally set is what you will be.
Mining Disrupt News Surge host · 8:35
When this episode was recorded, Bitcoin traded at $82,173. On October 26, 2026 it was $79,783.