Watts & Blocks Podcast

This is the last recorded episode of the Watts & Blocks with Ben Walsh as the host. He shares what the next adventure will be and if anyone is interested in picking up the podcast as the new host, reach out! Thank you to everyone, fans, followers, guests, sponsors. It has been such a wonderful experience!

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Greg Beard the CEO at Stronghold Digital Mining. This was another one of those episodes where I have been a huge admirer of the business model of being a truly vertically integrated bitcoin miner and so for me this was a ton of fun to...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sean Lawrie, the CSO and Principal at Lumerra. This was an especially fun conversation for me because Sean and I are really passionate about the same topics and both looking for ways to help usher bitcoin mining into utility companies...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Casey Martinez, the Founder & CEO of Clean Incentive. This was an absolute blast for me because I got to learn a ton on this episode. I truly did not have a lot of understanding of Renewable Energy Credits, how they functioned, wh...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Austin Mitchell the CEO and Co-Founder of Synota. This show is a slightly unique spin on our usual programming, we do a full deep dive on just Synota because they are the payments infrastructure that is allowing both bitcoin miners an...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jeff Hotz, the owner of a 1MW bitcoin mining facility here in the Midwest. We get into Jeff’s background running businesses and how this facility is actually Jeff’s retirement plan and how he has right sized everything for that. We al...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Mapes, the Founder & President of the Digital Energy Council. And man did we have an incredible conversation, all I can really say is guys you need to listen to the whole episode because there is a lot of great info to pick up...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This was the last Friday of the year and we were short Wolfie Zhao, it just didn’t work out with time zone changes and schedules but man was this packed with some awesome nuggets of information! You seriously have to stick around to the end to hear what both Collin & Eric have available if y...

Hey everyone, welcome to the Watts & Blocks Podcast! This is a special small episode where I do a quick 2023 in review, announce the new name change, and re-state the goal for the show. A very special thank you to our show sponsors, none of this happens without them! The official miner management partner of the show is Foreman. You wont find a better team or better software out there to not on...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Cristin Lyons, Partner and Energy Practice Leader at ScottMadden. For those of you who may not be familiar with ScottMadden they are one of the leading energy consultants in the US and have been consulting some of the largest energy...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Blake King, the Power Markets Engineer for Galaxy Digital. Right out of the gate Blake and I get into PPA structures for bitcoin miners and what those relationships are like. Blake does a great job steelmanning the case for what bitc...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sue Ennis and Asher Genoot of New Hut. This was a really awesome episode because we got to dive into some of the details just a couple of days after the merger closed and New Hut was formed. We got into their two phase approach focus...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Asher Genoot, the President and Co-Founder of US Bitcoin Corp—you’ll hear me screw that up right out of the gate. We explore some of the less talked about verticals of business that add incredible amounts of EBITA to US Bitcoin Corp...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lisa Hough, the VP of Strategic Relations at Custodia Bank. We have a wide ranging discussion on how bitcoin miners should really be looking at having an energy trading desk in-house and some of the great examples of conversations th...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This Monday release is a special bonus episode where I am sitting down with the Wilson brothers, Eric & Steven, the founders of Wilson Mining located in Iowa. Man oh man did we have a great conversation about the smaller class of bitcoin miner and the challenges that they face when working...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rob Chang, the CEO and Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining. We get into the similarities of traditional metal mining and bitcoin mining, we get into all sorts of strategy around effectively allocating capital and Rob drops an absolute...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This month was packed with things to discuss! Collin walks us through the brand new Luxor Logistics division that they just rolled out and are now able to help everyone with their miner fleet. We also get into the absolute tear that the miner market has been on and Collin and Wolfie talk about...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Joe Sullivan, the Vice-Chair of the MN Public Utilities Commission. I was absolutely thrilled that Joe took the time to chat with me about all of this and we start the episode off with a deep dive into the new Meta data center coming...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This Monday’s release is the round 2 of my discussion with Tony Clark, the President & Founder of Great Oaks. We pick the conversation up where we left off by going deeper on how utility companies are looking for new business, or not, and a full walk through of building out an imaginary 5MW...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Adam Swick, the Chief Growth Officer at Marathon Digital. On the episode we go deep into the benefits of being an asset light bitcoin miner and how Marathon is taking a portfolio approach to the future in terms of building its own sites. We also...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This Monday release is a special bonus episode where I am sitting down with Tony Clark, the President & Founder of Great Oaks. This was a long overdue episode where we go into all things engineering, procurement, and contract or EPC work and we take some time to go over some of the basics o...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Hare, the CEO of PRTI. PRTI is a company that I have been watching for a couple years now because of the insanely impactful technology of processing tires to create alternative fuel sources to then power a data center that is focused on bi...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This Monday release is a special bonus episode where I sit down with Taylor Monnig from CleanSpark to talk all things immersion. This is a bonus episode because we stray a little off topic from the normal energy and bitcoin mining discussion that I have on the show but this was a very relevant...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jamie McAvity, the CEO and founder of Cormint. This conversation is a treasure trove of information when it comes to wind power and bitcoin mining. We go deep on the history of wind farms in ERCOT and the differences between being collocated vs....

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dan Morrison, the CEO and Founder of Amalgamated Sludge. This episode was a fun one for me because I have so much to learn still about the oil & gas industry and how bitcoin mining is done leveraging natural gas. We talk about why vertical integration...