Episode notes
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s show, Colin interviews Rob Warren, the author of The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac. Standing up a bitcoin mining operation is a herculean task. From managing ASICs, to standing up infrastructure, to navigating power contracts, bitcoin miners have to learn everything from IT management to hardware maintenance – and everything in between. That’s why Rob wrote The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac, to help newcomer and veteran miners alike easily navigate the daunting, complicated minutiae of bitcoin mining. In our conversation, we touch on what inspired the book, Rob’s experience researching and writing it, and what he plans to include in the second edition. This isn’t your grandfather’s almanac…
You can purchase The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac on Amazon or the Bitcoin Magazine store.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:03 The Bitcoin Miner's Almanac
12:21 Forget about Bitcoin
20:14 Making sense of the energy industry
28:37 Energy monopolies
33:01 Pros & cons of energy production
40:33 Book version 2
52:26 Machine form factors
1:02:41 Interviewing miners
1:10:23 Stranded energy opportunities
1:15:49 Wrap up
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