Watts & Blocks Podcast

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This is the first of the new series we are launching that we are calling the Energy & Bitcoin Mining Monthly News! We have industry thought leaders Collin Kelly, Account Manager at Luxor’s ASIC Trading Desk, Wolfie Zhao the Founder & Head of Research for The Miner Mag, and Eric Neal the...

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 The Hobbyist Miner and man did we have an awesome conversation! This was especially fun for me because The Hobbyist and I had very similar starts and are in a very similar situation currently where we are exploring how to scale our operations. This was a...

Pacific Bitcoin Promo Link: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/discount/HASHRATE Pacific Bitcoin Promo Code: HASHRATE Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Adam Sullivan, the CEO at Core Scientific. Adam is one of the sharpest and smartest guys I’ve met, and he does a phenomenal job walking through Core Scientific’s sit...

Pacific Bitcoin Promo Link: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/discount/HASHRATE Pacific Bitcoin Promo Code: HASHRATE Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dan Lawrence the Founder and CEO of Foreman and Jeremy Ellis the Director of Power at Foreman. Not only is was this conversation an absolute blast, but I am a huge a...

Pacific Bitcoin Promo Link: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/discount/HASHRATE Pacific Bitcoin Promo Code: HASHRATE Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. We have another very special episode, today I am joined by both Evan Neel and Agee Springer of ERCOT. We spend some time talking through who ERCOT is, the scale of the grid compared to the total capacity o...

Pacific Bitcoin Promo Link: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/discount/HASHRATE Pacific Bitcoin Promo Code: HASHRATE Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. On todays show I am joined by Elliot David, the Head of Climate Strategy at Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol. We have a wide-ranging discussion on all things climate and get to do a full deep dive on who Susta...

Pacific Bitcoin Promo Link: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/discount/HASHRATE Pacific Bitcoin Promo Code: HASHRATE Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. I have to say this is one of the greatest hits for me, on todays show I am joined by John Belizaire, the CEO of Soluna Holdings. What’s exciting is we get to do a really deep dive on who Soluna is, why the...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. On todays show we are coming to you live from Miami for Mining Disrupt where I am joined by Cam McDonald, the Operations & Development Manager at Foundry Digital. We had an absolute blast talking through things such as how companies justify the returns on a commercial solar project from an EPC perspective, how Cam...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. On todays show I am joined by Dan Roberts, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Iris Energy. This is an episode where you will truly get an institutional look at how to think through bitcoin mining as a business. Dan does a great job walking through the risk profile of being a behind the meter customer of power, how Iris is l...

Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Hashrate Happy Hour Podcast. On todays show I am joined by JP Baric, the CEO of The Mining Store. This was a fantastic conversation about Mining Store’s start and the differences JP is seeing between procuring power back in the hay days vs. now and we get into a discussion about some of the challenges he sees in the market place when it comes to...

On todays show I am joined by Zach Bradford, the CEO and Co-Founder of CleanSpark. We had an awesome conversation talking about the early days of CleanSpark, the key problem with the argument that energy generators are going to take over bitcoin mining, and we wrap up with discussing some of the challenges bitcoin mining may face in the future when it comes to its energy consumption. Zach drops a...

On today's show I have on Tim Echols, the Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission. During todays show we have a wide ranging conversation about who the Georgia Public Service Commission is and what they do for the citizens of Georgia, what the balancing act of setting electrical rates is like, how a company or group can work with their elected officials to get a new power rate p...

On today's show I have on Ryan Macleod, a Laboratory Technologist working at the Canadian Nuclear Labs in Ontario Canada. Ryan performs analyses for reactor safety and R&D projects that look into other ways to preserve the lifespan and safety of nuclear reactors. In addition to that, Ryan is a huge bitcoin and bitcoin mining advocate and has presented his ideas and ways to add bitcoin mini...

On today's show I have on Justin Orkney, the Commercial Director at Standard Power. Standard Power provides Infrastructure as a Service to advanced data processing companies such as those focusing on blockchain mining and high performance computing applications. They work closely with their clients to provide server management and colocation services with reliable, secure and efficient infrast...

Today's show is one of those shows that you will most likely re-wind and relisten to more than once. I had the pleasure of talking with Michael Carter of Bits Be Trippin. For those that don’t know Michael, he is on of the O.G.s of bitcoin mining and the pioneer of YouTube content about bitcoin and crypto mining. Michael started Bits Be Trippin in 2012 as a way to help educate the general commu...

Today's show is really fun conversation, I sat down with Sue Ennis the VP of Corporate Development at Hut 8. Hut 8 is advancing innovation and providing the foundation for the digital economy through high performance infrastructure, cutting-edge technology solutions, and digital mining. As a High Performance Computing pioneer powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and a responsible digital...

Today's show is very exciting, I sat down with Kerri Langlais the CSO at TeraWulf. TeraWulf has been one of those mining companies that I have ogled over since they first hit the scene with their nuclear facility partnership and so for me to be able to ask Kerri a bunch of questions was beyond exciting! TeraWulf is an infrastructure-focused bitcoin mining company accelerating the transition to...

Today's show is a special one, I have the pleasure of having two guests on: Holden Guillies & Todd Behrend. Both guests are coming from Merkle Standard. Merkle Standard is committed to building North America’s largest sustainable digital asset mining platform. With a specific focus on vertical-integration, the company has prioritized renewable energy at its developed sites. Holden is comin...

On today's show, my guest is David Branscum. David is the CCO at Rebel Mining, Rebel is a professional bitcoin mining hosting company that is helping enterprise companies mine bitcoin using their world-class expertise and state-of-the-art infrastructure as simply or as customizable as they want. David is coming to the conversation with a wealth of knowledge in data centers, immersion technolog...

This episode is very special because not only did I sit down with my friend Kyle Herron but we were recording live from Miami for the bitcoin 2023 conference. We recorded this live on the rooftop pool and had an absolute blast. I think we could have recorded a whole other episode on more philosophical topics but we had to get to the Satoshi Action Benefit dinner that Cryptech Solutions hosted. Kyl...

On today's show, I have a very special guest joining me. I have Lee Bratcher on, and Lee is the President & Founder of The Texas Blockchain Council. If you listen to the show you will know that they are a sponsor for the podcast and have been a very good partner for the show. The Texas Blockchain Council is an industry association that works to promote the interests of their member compani...

On today's show, my guest is Chris O’Donnell. Chris is the Director of Power & Environmental Strategy at CWP Energy Solutions. CWP aims to help clients optimize revenues and mitigate risks associated with renewable and energy storage investments. They achieve this through services including AI-enabled Active Asset Management, Computing Infrastructure Optimization, Battery Storage Optimizat...

On today's show, my guest is Patrick Guerriero and we explore a slightly different area of the bitcoin mining industry today; we dig into the finance & liquidity side of bitcoin mining. Patrick is the General Manager of the US for Block Green, Block Green is a decentralized lending protocol that gives sustainable mining operations access to fair and transparent liquidity from Bitcoin holde...

On today's show, my guest is Sam Copeland. Sam is the VP of Sales at Navier, Navier is a software and infrastructure company that works to help companies develop sources of sustainable, long-term economic growth. Their expertise is in designing and implementing data centers which allows them to offer scalable, efficient, turnkey solutions for projects revolving around alternative assets. Sam i...

On today's show, my guest is Eric Neal. Eric is the Director of Energy Planning at Digital Power Optimization, otherwise known as DPO. DPO believes that there should never be another underutilized electrical generation asset given the immensely profitable and readily available use cases of mining bitcoin. DPO was created to help those companies and asset owners better manage the usage of their...