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Cleaning Up Coal Waste with Bitcoin Mining | Greg Beard | The Mining Pod

Today we are joined by Greg Beard, CEO of Stronghold Digital Mining. Greg and I discuss Stronghold’s use of waste coal to clean up Pennsylvania and mine Bitcoin, how Bitcoin mining incentives land reclamation and the min...

2023-01-31

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Today we are joined by Greg Beard, CEO of Stronghold Digital Mining. Greg and I discuss Stronghold’s use of waste coal to clean up Pennsylvania and mine Bitcoin, how Bitcoin mining incentives land reclamation and the mining economics of vertical integration.


https://strongholddigitalmining.com/


Greg Beard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-beard-682047142


Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley




TIMESTAMPS:


00:00 Start


00:28 Intro


01:03 Stronghold business


02:20 Power from coal waste


06:58 Special power plant


12:53 Scale or the problem / solution


17:07 Why Bitcoin mining?


21:21 Mining economics w/ vertical integration


26:04 Subsidies & carbon credits


26:59 Deciding when to switch revenue streams


29:25 Predicting energy price volatility


35:40 Local community reaction


37:15 Environmentalist pushback?


40:17 Bitcoin community reaction


43:31 Hashrate prediction




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