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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, MARA’s Chief Strategy Officer Adam Swick joins to discuss the forward-looking plans CEO Fred Thiel mentioned in MARA’s 2024 earnings call. Specifically, Swick unpacks claims that MARA wants to offshore 50% of its operations by 2028 by entering into similar joint-ventures as its Zero Two partnership in the UAE. Swick also speaks to the company’s goal to own more energy-generating assets in the United States and how it would finance such purchases. Finally, why MARA is so hot on the new ASIC manufacturer, Auradine, and whether or not we should expect MARA to enter the inference field for AI compute.
You can listen to MARA's 2024 earnings call here.
• Mara went from 0% to 70% owned mining assets
• Q4 revenue: $214.4M with lower operating costs
• Target: 50% of operations outside US by 2028
• Wind farm acquisition extends life of older miners
• Auradine partnership delivering quality ASIC miners
• Focus on AI inference rather than training models
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:53 MARA lowering OpEx
06:24 Trend toward owned assets
09:01 Zero cost mining
14:17 Debt financing BTC purchases
19:27 Considering power production
22:01 Foreign mining sites
27:08 Has Africa been sufficiently de-risked?
30:25 Free-er energy markets vs controlled
33:57 Auradine
40:40 AI & HPC
