Watts & Blocks Podcast

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.

Right out of the gate we get to hear about Sean’s experience working with nuclear power plants explaining that bitcoin mining is a huge opportunity that they need to be evaluating, and we get into all sorts of discussion about how this was received and how different utilities are evaluating this opportunity.

Sean rounds out the conversation walking us through what his new company is doing and how Lumerra is helping re-shape the training industry for utility companies and why that’s important. Sean and I had a bunch of fun on this episode and I would expect a round 2 in the very near future.

You can find more about Lumerra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumerra/about/

You can find more about Sean Lawrie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-lawrie-651976/

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This show is managed by Foreman!

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This show is powered by Giga Energy.

Giga Energy is a vertically integrated bitcoin mining company that manufactures all of the electrical infrastructure needed to start mining bitcoin—whether that is medium voltage switchgear, PDUs, or power cables for your miners, the team at Giga Energy has you covered!

Reach out to their sales team today for all of your electrical infrastructure needs at [email protected] and use the word Hashrate for the subject of the email to receive 5% off.

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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, what purpose they were service, why is there a market for them. We get into another super interesting topic of how the traditional data center industry went through the same smear campaigns that bitcoin mining is currently getting as it relates to its energy use and what did they do to get out from under that. We wrap up with the work Casey is doing with Clean Incentive and how they are using the blockchain to verify energy sources. Like I said, this was incredible for me because I walked away learning a bunch!

You can find more about Clean Incentive here: https://www.cleanincentive.com/

You can find more about Clean Incentive on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Clean_Incentive

You can find more about Clean Incentive on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-incentive/

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This show is managed by Foreman!

Foreman helps you manage your entire bitcoin mining facility all from 1 dashboard: demand response and power controls to miner mapping and business intelligence.

This is truly an invaluable tool for miner management as well as managing your curtailment strategy.

Check them out at Foreman.mn

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This show is powered by Giga Energy.

Giga Energy is a vertically integrated bitcoin mining company that manufactures all of the electrical infrastructure needed to start mining bitcoin—whether that is medium voltage switchgear, PDUs, or power cables for your miners, the team at Giga Energy has you covered!

Reach out to their sales team today for all of your electrical infrastructure needs at [email protected] and use the word Hashrate for the subject of the email to receive 5% off.

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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 have a lot of discussion at the end about their super exciting joint venture in the UAE where they are helping solve a demand and supply mis-match for the utility company. Marathon is definitely a juggernaut in the bitcoin mining industry so I hope that you all find the discussion insightful!

You can find more about Marathon Digital at: https://www.mara.com/

You can find more about Marathon Digital on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marathon-digital-holdings/

You can find more about Marathon Digital on Twitter: @MarathonDH

You can find more about Adam Swick on Twitter: @swicktalk

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This show is managed by Foreman!

Foreman helps you manage your entire bitcoin mining facility all from 1 dashboard: demand response and power controls to miner mapping and business intelligence.

This is truly an invaluable tool for miner management as well as managing your curtailment strategy.

Check them out at Foreman.mn

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This show is powered by Giga Energy.

Giga Energy is a vertically integrated bitcoin mining company that manufactures all of the electrical infrastructure needed to start mining bitcoin—whether that is medium voltage switchgear, PDUs, or power cables for your miners, the team at Giga Energy has you covered!

Reach out to their sales team today for all of your electrical infrastructure needs at [email protected] and use the word Hashrate for the subject of the email to receive 5% off.

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Today’s podcast is brought to you by our sponsor, the Texas Blockchain Council; a bitcoin-first nonprofit industry organization working to make Texas the jurisdiction of choice for bitcoin mining and blockchain innovation. They will be hosting North America’s premiere policy conference for the bitcoin and digital asset ecosystem on November 15-17 in Fort Worth Texas. For more information, please visit their website at texasblockchaincouncil.org.

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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 utilities, to site optimization. Joe is coming to the show with not only decades of experience in the power and electricity industry but a deep past of bitcoin mining as well.

On todays show, Joe and I talk about legacy demand response and energy consumption control products that have been around for a long time and how bitcoin mining is disrupting that industry, four different products in a bitcoin mining facility that help optimize the total economic output of the operation, how legacy Fortune 500 companies such as Honeywell are starting to catch on to the benefits of bitcoin mining facilities as a tool for the grid, and we wrap up the conversation with Joe’s perspective on what each industry could do to have a better approach to their energy strategy. This was one of the more memorable conversations I have had on the show and the information that Joe shares in this episode will not disappoint.

Today’s podcast is brought to you by our sponsor, the Texas Blockchain Council; a bitcoin-first nonprofit industry organization working to make Texas the jurisdiction of choice for bitcoin mining and blockchain innovation. They will be hosting North America’s premiere policy conference for the bitcoin and digital asset ecosystem on November 15-17 in Fort Worth Texas. For more information, please visit their website at texasblockchaincouncil.org

Support for this podcast also comes from SunnySide Digital, the leading wholesale distributor of data center and digital mining hardware and infrastructure. Contact their sales team today at [email protected].

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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, and getting the site container ready for a mining operation. Nathan brings over a decade of experience and knowledge of utility companies, energy markets & trading, as well as years of executive level experience at bitcoin mining companies.

On todays show, Nathan and I talk through how Outlaw Mining creates these turnkey sites for bitcoin mining by working directly with power generators, where most of these opportunities for bitcoin miners are in the US and the nuances of the different grid systems, which power generators are typically the most advantageous for bitcoin mining facilities and why they stand to gain the most from having a co-located bitcoin mining facility on site, and finally we wrap up by discussing how bitcoin mining benefits utility companies because of their high load factor. This conversation was incredible and I’ve already re-listened to it twice now just to soak up all of the information that Nathan shares. If you want to hear more about how and why bitcoin mining is the perfect tool for increasing more renewable energy then buckle up for a great conversation.

Today’s podcast is brought to you by our sponsor, the Texas Blockchain Council; a bitcoin-first nonprofit industry organization working to make Texas the jurisdiction of choice for bitcoin mining and blockchain innovation. They will be hosting North America’s premiere policy conference for the bitcoin and digital asset ecosystem on November 15-17 in Fort Worth Texas. For more information, please visit their website at texasblockchaincouncil.org

Support for today's show comes from SunnySide Digital, the leading wholesale distributor of data center and digital mining hardware and infrastructure.. Contact their sales team today at [email protected].

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