High Hash Rate

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Ben Justman. Ben is an entrepreneur winemaker from Colorado building the Peony Lane wine brand. We dive into Ben's background as an adrenaline junky with a passion for mountain sports, how he discovered Bitcoin, launching a natural wine company without any business or wine making experience, and his journey to find meaning in the mundane day-to-...

This week on High Hash Rate, NoWasteBTC Signs returns to the podcast. He is a commercial sign maker who makes physical Bitcoin art and signs from scrap manufacturing materials which would otherwise be wasted. He is also the organizer for the Bakersfield, CA Bitcoin Meetup group. NoWasteBTCsigns Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoWasteBTCsigns Bakersfield Bitcoin Meetup https://www.bitcoinerevents.com/...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Rigel Walshe Rigel is the lead vocalist for the death metal band Dawn of Azazel as well as a software engineer working in the Bitcoin space. We discuss his talk on Bitcoin as a Religious Phenomenon from the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga, Latvia earlier this year and much more. Rigel’s Twitter: @CoinsureNZ Dawn of Azazel: https://www.dawn...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Sean Harris Sean is a former professional basketball player and co-host of the Meme Factory Podcast. He is also hosting the Halving Party in El Salvador to celebrate the next Bitcoin Block Reward Halving in April 2024. We discuss the Bitcoin community, memes, and the similarities between playing basketball and Bitcoin. Sean’s Twitter: @BigSeanHa...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with "Normie" Dave Dave is a class of 2020-2021 Bitconer who lives in New Zealand. Despite being active on "Bitcoin X" and more or less identifying as a Bitcoin Maximalist, Dave is a "toxic normie". We chat about Bitcoin, how it has impacted his life, how it's viewed in New Zealand, and how he squares his center left ideology with the radically diffe...

This week on High Hash Rate, audio clips salvaged from the Rock Paper Bitcoin episode. We recorded an episode with Fundamentals and Business Cat from the Rock Paper Bitcoin Podcast. Unfortunately there was an issue with the audio upload from our podcast platform and much of the episode was lost forever. However, some of the episode was salvaged and we did our best to cut together the audio clips o...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with "Stimmy" Stimmy is an early member of the Moscow Memetards, a Bitcoin Twitter meme gang. He is also a U.S. Army Veteran who served in Afghanistan as a Forward Observer and intelligence soldier with deployments to Pasthun and Taliban controlled Southeastern Afghanistan. He talks about his transition back to civilian life and how Bitcoin is a natu...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with MADEX MADEX is a Canadian artist, Objectivist, and the Creative Director for Bull Bitcoin. We discuss individualism, the state, art, 3D printing guns, and the upcoming MADEX documentary MADEX's Twitter: @SPACEBULL MADEX's website: https://madex.art/ Bull Bitcoin: https://www.bullbitcoin.com/ Dan Twitter: @hrtlndbitcoin Mike Twitter: @rundancebit...

This week on High Hash Rate, a High Hash Rate classic with Dan and Mike. No guest this week as we kick it old school with a conversation about zombies, debt, epistemology, conspiracy theories, and some thoughts about conflict in the Middle East Dan Twitter: @hrtlndbitcoin Mike Twitter: @rundancebitcoin High Hash Rate Twitter: @HighHashRate

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with JeremyHODL Jeremy is an accountant and digital nomad. We talk about his Bitcoin journey, early days as a trader, going to Bitcoin conferences, and using the fiat system against itself for his own advantage. Jeremy’s Twitter: @JeremyHODL Jeremy's NOSTR Npub: npub1pkm6jflu4gtgtryh3v7f6a5urjxuc20ttw0r38uqrs6gf3z44ftsuqk4xt Dan Twitter: @hrtlndbitco...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with the creator of Seed Signer Seed is a pseudo anon behind the Seed Signer open source DIY air-gapped Bitcoin signing device known as Seed Signer. He is a former forensics investigator who found Bitcoin in 2012-2013 and developed a signing device similar to a hardware wallet inspired by Specter. Seed Signers’ Twitter: @seedsigner Website: seedsigne...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Lina Seiche Lina is the creator the Little HODLer plushies, his comics, and the travel blog "Traveling HODLer". We talk about her experience traveling the world, meeting El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, and her experience as an entrepreneur. Linas's Twitter: @LinaSeiche Traveling HODLer Twitter: @TravelingHODLer Little HODLer: https://theli...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Isaiah Jackson Isaiah, one of CoinDesk's Most Influential in 2021, is a Bitcoin educator, podcaster, and the author of Bitcoin in Black America. We talk about aliens, Isaiah beating Steph Curry in a three point shooting contest in high school, becoming a published author, and more about his Bitcoin journey. Isaiah's Twitter: @bitcoinzay Bitcoin...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Meyrick @BTC_honeybadger Meyrick is a businessman and former banker from India who is currently living in Australia. He also hosts a podcast called Dabbling Path, and is active in the Australian Bitcoin scene. In this episode we discuss Bitcoin, the Australian Bitcoins scene, politics and economics in India, Eastern religions such as Hinduism, a...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with @RedTailHawk1923 Red Tail Hawk is a specialist in assessing habits and behaviors in students and using that data identify archetypes to determine how to teach hard skills like math and science. He is also a Bitcoiner and with an interesting perspective on many issues. Red Tail Hawk's Twitter: @RedTailHawk1923 Red Tail Hawk's Nostr npub: npub1z4y...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Tony Yazbeck Tony is a cybersecurity expert, with decades of experience, as well as a Bitcoin educator and co-founder of The Bitcoin Way. The Bitcoin Way is based in Dubai and provides white glove education and technical assistance to Bitcoiners looking to buy no-KYC, hold their own keys, and run their own node. We discuss the reasons for owning...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Fundamentals Fundamentals, co-host of the podcast Rock Paper Bitcoin, joins us to talk about jam band culture, the undeniable similarities between Bitcoin and legendary rock band Phish, mitochondria, and why he thinks Black Rock might be pursuing a Bitcoin ETF to front run the coming reckoning in the bond market. Fundamentals’ Twitter: @BBrianPa...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with TC (@Meditation_Man) who returns to talk about new features added to the popular Timechain Calendar. TC is a shaman building a new tool that will change the way humans think about time. He is also a software developer and creator of the Timechain Calendar. TC's Twitter: @Meditation_Man Timechain Calendar: https://timechaincalendar.com/ Dan Twitt...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with "Boomer" Boomer is an economist for the Canadian Federal government living in Ottawa. He is an organizer for the Ottawa Bitcoin Meet Up and a contributor to Bitcoin Magazine. We discuss his experience as a Bitcoiner working for the government, how taking part in the 2022 Freedom Convoy helped him realize the power of Bitcoin, organizing a meet u...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Alex Waltz Alex is a filmmaker who's been obsessed with Bitcoin since he discovered it as a college student in 2012. During his Bitcoin journey Alex mined Bitcoin in his college dorm, built various applications, businesses, and ran an OTC desk in London. Now he is focusing his efforts on telling Bitcoin's story through his passion of filmmaking....

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Frank Holmes Frank is a businessman, investor, former commodities fund manager, gold bug, and the Executive Chairman of Hive Digital Technologies (Formerly Hive Blockchain). We discuss the current state of Bitcoin mining in Canada, Sweden, and Iceland as well as Hive's pivot to providing 'compute as a service' for entities training Artificial In...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Luke aka Business Cat Luke joins us on High Hash Rate for the second time to discuss his new podcast Rock Paper Bitcoin, how Bitcoin incentivizes the exploration of space, Bitcoin mining, energy, Gravity wells, and more Luke's Twitter: @_business_cat Rock Paper Bitcoin Podcast: https://www.fountain.fm/show/EUdSfx8792GOAPMKXJwM Luke's Previous Hi...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Jared Weber (@JaredWeber21) Jared is the youngest guest to appear on High Hash Rate. At just age 20, Jared has a solid grasp on Bitcoin's value prop as well as the reasons fiat currency is dying. We discuss Jared's Orange Pill experience as a teenager, exploring his skill in communicating Bitcoin to a broader audience, his Substack, and other to...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Jeff (@SlyGoomba) from the Why Bitcoin Podcast Jeff returns to High Hash Rate to discuss some of the more cosmic and abstract ideas Bitcoiners share on forums like Twitter, their podcasts, and other corners of the internet. To some, Bitcoiners sound a little unhinged, dogmatic, and definitely crazy. However, we use terms like "fiat", not in the...

This week on High Hash Rate, Dan and Mike speak with Nathan Fast Nathan is the Director of Brand Relationships for Swan Bitcoin and a former FM radio DJ who hosted top hit shows in multiple major markets throughout the United States. Nathan talks about his journey from the red carpet and a voice cameo in Sharknado to burgeoning Bitcoin industry. We discuss finding community, communicating and educ...