Watts & Blocks Podcast

On today's show, my guest is Taras Kulyk. Taras is the CEO and Founder of SunnySide Digital, SunnySide is a leading wholesale distributor for data center and digital mining hardware and infrastructure. The company is focused on providing a white glove service that is best in class to ensure that their customers needs are met—whether that is procuring hardware or discretely liquidating equipmen...

On today's show, my guest is Joe Dillion. Joe is the CEO and Founder of Adakon Energy Solutions, Adakon is focused on providing solutions to utilities, power generation, developers, and municipalities to help them manage or procure large flexible loads and generation for their stakeholders. Their focus is on bitcoin mining, where there areas of practice are site development to consulting utili...

On today's show, my guest is Nathan Sprague. Nathan is the COO at Outlaw Mining, a company that specializes in sourcing and developing access to dirt-cheap power supply, at scale, designed to power high-power computing applications. They work to bring a turnkey solution to individuals and companies wanting to build a bitcoin mining site by pinpointing access to cheap power, developing the land...

On today's show, my guest is Matt Lousteau. Matt is the Business Development Manager at Luxor, they are a software company focused on the bitcoin mining space. They are building a full-stack suite of bitcoin mining software and financial services products. They offer everything from a mining pool, to ASIC trading desk, to their brand new 3rd party ASIC firmware. Truth be told, this is a change...

Before I get into the podcast details I do need to make a quick discloser: that I personally use Simple Mining for hosting some of my bitcoin mining servers and in the episode we talk about the hosting services that Simple Mining offers. I only ever recommend services or products that I personally use and I would highly recommend Simple Mining for your bitcoin mining hosting needs. This is not a p...

On today's show, my guest is Cody Nelson. Cody is the COO and Co-Founder of Bit49, a bitcoin mining hosting company whose mission is to leverage the massive demand for bitcoin mining to accelerate the adoption of green energy worldwide. Cody and Bit49 have years of experience in sourcing bitcoin mining sites that pay close attention to the energy mix and they bring a unique perspective to esta...

On today's show, my guest is Bob Burnett. Bob is the CEO and Founder of Barefoot Mining, a company that is focused on the development of the horse-class bitcoin mining site. Barefoot Mining has made it a goal to grow and expand the bitcoin network via bitcoin mining by expanding its footprint across a wide range of scales, site locations, and power sources. Barefoot Mining and Bob are in a uni...

On today's show, my guest is Steve Barbour. Steve has years of experience in the oil and gas industry as well as the bitcoin mining industry, with a formal education as an engineer, and he is the CEO and Founder of Upstream Data. Steve’s company is an oil and gas services company that specializes in integrating bitcoin mining operations at oil and gas sights to help increase overall efficienci...

On today's show, my guest is Kevin Kouba. Kevin is the Economic Development Manager at Otter Tail Power Company, they are an investor owned electric utility company that provides electricity and energy services for just over 133,000 people. They have a service territory that spans 70,000 square miles in Minnesota, South Dakota & North Dakota where their mission is to produce and deliver el...

On today's show, my guest is Nick Phillips. Nick is the EVP of Hosting Operations & Public Affairs at Applied Digital, they are one of the largest publicly traded next generation digital infrastructure companies in North America. Applied Digital is most known for their professional bitcoin mining hosting services. What makes Applied Digital so unique is that they seek to develop and operat...

On today's show, my guest is Dave Meyer. Dave is the general manager at Glencoe Light & Power, and they are a municipal power company in rural Minnesota that services a town of just over 5000 people. What makes Glencoe Light & Power so unique is that they are home to a 10+MW bitcoin mining facility. On today’s show, Dave and I will talk through the strategies that a municipal power com...