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Today on the show we are joined by Erick Hersman, co-founder of Gridless, a Bitcoin mining company building mini-mines on stranded energy sites in Africa. We dig into micro-grid economics, mining operations in East Africa and financing continued expansion.
https://gridlesscompute.com
https://twitter.com/GridlessCompute
Erik Hersman: https://twitter.com/whiteafrican
Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:42 Mini grid economics
04:28 Setup process
07:33 Shipping hardware in East Africa
09:29 Corruption in the supply lines
10:16 Jobs
11:58 Local building regulations
15:00 Mini grid electricity costs
18:13 Renewable energy sources
19:47 Unique challenges
22:45 Geographic distribution of sites
25:08 Security
26:06 Aspirations
28:36 Bitcoin awareness locally
31:22 Hashrate prediction
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Today on the show we are joined by Erick Hersman, co-founder of Gridless, a Bitcoin mining company building mini-mines on stranded energy sites in Africa. We dig into micro-grid economics, mining operations in East Africa and financing continued expansion.
https://twitter.com/GridlessCompute
Erik Hersman: https://twitter.com/whiteafrican
Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:42 Mini grid economics
04:28 Setup process
07:33 Shipping hardware in East Africa
09:29 Corruption in the supply lines
10:16 Jobs
11:58 Local building regulations
15:00 Mini grid electricity costs
18:13 Renewable energy sources
19:47 Unique challenges
22:45 Geographic distribution of sites
25:08 Security
26:06 Aspirations
28:36 Bitcoin awareness locally
31:22 Hashrate prediction
MINE
Start mining your own bitcoins with Compass. https://bit.ly/3CehBf1
WATCH https://youtube.com/c/CompassMining?sub_confirmation=1
LISTEN
Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/3fNfrdi
Spotify https://spoti.fi/3tSf9G1
Amazon https://amzn.to/3557cqg
Anchor https://bit.ly/3rmb7UF
Fountain https://bit.ly/3NeNTec
LEARN
Every week, Compass sends a memo to over 18,000 professional miners and investors with the most important news and data in cryptocurrency mining. Get the free newsletter in your inbox too: https://bit.ly/3vOGzxD
FOLLOW
Twitter: https://twitter.com/compass_mining