The Bitcoin Mining Show

THE PEOPLE BEHIND BITCOIN MINING | SEASON 1 FINALE 🐾 THANK YOU TO OUR VIEWERS! Twenty episodes. Incredible guests. A community that keeps showing up. Thank you to everyone who watched, subscribed, commented, shared, and supported Season 1 of The Bitcoin Mining Show. Thank you to our guests for sharing their Real Life Proof of Work, and to Altair Technology for making this season possible! For our season finale, we’re focusing on one of the most important parts of any Bitcoin mining business: THE PEOPLE. Cinco welcomes Elizabeth Thurgaland, co-founder and Head of Talent at Bitcoiner Talent, for a conversation about finding your place in Bitcoin—and finding the right people to build a Bitcoin business. From electricians and HVAC specialists to sales, marketing, finance, and operations, the industry needs much more than developers. We explore how your existing experience can translate into a Bitcoin career, what employers want to see, and why conviction, capability, and proof of work matter. We also discuss hiring through the 2026 bear market, Elizabeth’s outlook for 2027, common résumé mistakes, and practical steps you can take now to prepare for your next opportunity. And yes—we take a detour into S9 heat reuse, Bitcoin-powered beef jerky, and keeping Cinco’s tortoise warm! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Opening 00:30 Season finale welcome: the people behind mining 01:44 Meet Elizabeth: energy, recruiting, and Bitcoin 05:35 Why Bitcoiner Talent exists 10:40 Elizabeth’s Bitcoin rabbit-hole story 13:44 Bitcoin payments, Conduit, and a web of trust 20:17 Finding a Bitcoin job with Bitcoiner Talent 23:08 Interview preparation: conviction, capability, and proof 27:12 How Bitcoiner Talent supports employers 31:18 Altair Technology sponsor break — code CINCO 32:09 Bitcoin hiring through the 2026 bear market 34:40 Demand for non-developer roles 37:33 Looking ahead to the 2027 job market 38:47 The roles Bitcoin mining companies need 41:26 Electricians, HVAC, and transferable trade skills 44:45 S9 projects, heat reuse, and Bitcoin-powered jerky 49:52 Turning your home-mining experience into proof of work 51:43 Common Bitcoin résumé and application mistakes 56:39 Preparing now for a Bitcoin career in 2027 01:01:14 Military experience and rediscovering useful skills 01:06:19 Upcoming events and Bitcoiner Talent updates 01:10:08 Where to find Elizabeth and Bitcoiner Talent 01:10:54 Closing thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ CONNECT WITH ELIZABETH & BITCOINER TALENT Elizabeth on X: https://x.com/bitcoinerliz Bitcoiner Talent on X: https://x.com/BitcoinerTalent Website: https://www.bitcoinertalent.com Email: [email protected] 📖 INTERVIEW PREPARATION RESOURCE How to Prepare for a Bitcoin Company Interview: A 3-Step Framework https://bitcoinertalent.com/blog/bitcoin-company-interview-prep Visit Bitcoiner Talent to explore Bitcoin job opportunities or connect with Elizabeth about your hiring needs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛏️ SPONSORED BY ALTAIR TECHNOLOGY MINE YOUR INDEPENDENCE™ Looking for Bitcoin miners, replacement parts, accessories, or help planning your next mining setup? Visit Altair Technology. 🌐 Website: https://altairtech.io ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AltairTech 𝕏 X: https://x.com/altair_tech 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/altairtech 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/altairtech.io/ 💥 Use discount code CINCO at checkout! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐕 FOLLOW CINCO DOGGOS MINING Hosted by Cinco Doggos (Joe Spencer) 🌐 Website: https://cincodoggos.tech ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CincoDoggosMining 𝕏 X: https://x.com/cincodoggos 🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cincodoggos ⚡ Lightning/Tips: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Subscribe, like, and share this episode with someone considering a career in Bitcoin. 💬 What skills would YOU bring to a Bitcoin company? Tell us in the comments! Thank you for being part of Season 1. REAL LIFE PROOF OF WORK. #BitcoinMining #BitcoinJobs #BitcoinCareers #BitcoinerTalent #TheBitcoinMiningShow #AltairTech #CincoDoggos #ProofOfWork

What does the next era of Bitcoin mining actually look like? On Episode 19 of The Bitcoin Mining Show, Cinco sits down with Bob Burnett, founder of Barefoot Mining and Executive Chairman of OCEAN, for a wide-ranging conversation about Bitcoin mining economics, decentralization, hardware, energy, regulation, pools, and what miners should be thinking about as we move toward the 2028 halving. Bob brings decades of technology experience to the conversation, including his time as CTO of Gateway during the personal-computer era. He shares how GPU mining first pulled him into proof-of-work, why he ultimately focused on Bitcoin, and how Barefoot Mining developed its approach to mining and energy. We dig into Bob's “rabbits, horses, and elephants” framework for understanding different classes of Bitcoin miners, along with his distinction between wild and captive mining. From there, the conversation moves into geographic and regulatory risk, community resistance to mining and data centers, energy competition from AI/HPC, and why miners shouldn't become complacent simply because today's political environment may appear favorable. Bob also explains why the future of mining hardware isn't necessarily a race for the lowest possible J/TH number. Total cost of ownership, reliability, repairability, parts availability, infrastructure and uptime can matter just as much when you're actually operating miners in the real world. We discuss the used-miner market, ASIC manufacturing, network hashrate, capital constraints, Bob's “Miner's Dilemma,” and why he is already thinking seriously about the economics of the 2028 Bitcoin halving. The conversation ultimately comes back to decentralization and individual participation. Bob makes the case for becoming a “citizen of Bitcoin” by running a node, participating in mining, and taking a more active role in protecting the network rather than delegating those responsibilities entirely to somebody else. We close with OCEAN, DATUM, miner-created block templates, direct-from-coinbase payouts, and what OCEAN is building for miners who want greater sovereignty over their participation in Bitcoin. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:20 Who Is Bob Burnett? 02:17 From Gateway CTO to Crypto Mining 05:00 Why Bob Chose Bitcoin 06:37 Rabbits, Horses & Elephants 13:49 Wild vs. Captive Bitcoin Mining 20:00 Geographic & Regulatory Risk 27:12 Bitcoin Mining, AI & HPC 28:00 Community Pushback Against Data Centers 33:53 Noise, Permitting & Responsible Mining 38:00 Air Cooling vs. Hydro & Mining Infrastructure 43:50 Where Mining Hardware Innovation Goes Next 44:06 “An ASIC Is the Chip” 46:00 Why Total Cost of Ownership Matters 48:00 The Used Miner Market & Falling Hashrate 50:00 ASIC Manufacturing & Future Supply 51:00 The Miner's Dilemma: Energy, Capital & Hardware 55:30 Preparing for the 2028 Halving 58:00 How Hashrate Responds to Mining Economics 1:01:00 The Changing Role of Public Miners 1:04:00 Bitcoin Mining as a Commodity Business 1:05:00 Mining Produces Block Space 1:06:30 Is Bitcoin Mining Getting Healthier? 1:07:00 Becoming a “Citizen of Bitcoin” 1:11:00 Where to Follow Bob Burnett 1:12:20 OCEAN, DATUM & Miner-Created Templates 1:13:00 Closing 📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102 During the discussion of government and regulatory risk, Bob references Executive Order 6102, Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 order restricting private monetary-gold holdings and requiring most gold to be delivered to the Federal Reserve, subject to exemptions. Bob's discussion applies the history of EO 6102 as an analogy when considering potential future government intervention involving Bitcoin mining. EO 6102 itself was a gold-related order, not a Bitcoin or mining law. Executive Order 6102 — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 Read the original Executive Order 6102 — The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-6102-forbidding-the-hoarding-gold-coin-gold-bullion-and-gold-certificates 🔗 FOLLOW BOB BURNETT X: @boomer_btc Bob Burnett on X Barefoot Mining barefootmining.com OCEAN ocean.xyz The Bitcoin Boomers thebitcoinboomers.com ⚡ THE BITCOIN MINING SHOW Presented by Altair Tech Bitcoin mining hardware, infrastructure, parts and solutions. Altair Tech Mine Your Independence. Hosted by Cinco Doggos Cinco Doggos Mining X: @cincodoggos YouTube: @CincoDoggosMining Twitch: CincoDoggos Lightning/Tips: [email protected] The Bitcoin Mining Show brings you conversations with the miners, builders, operators, pools, manufacturers and entrepreneurs doing Real Life Proof of Work across the Bitcoin mining industry. Subscribe and turn on notifications for new episodes. HASHTAGS #Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #BTCMining #ProofOfWork #OCEAN #BarefootMining #BitcoinBoomers #BitcoinMiner #Mining #BitcoinNetwork #DATUM #AltairTech #CincoDoggos

Winter is coming. Your Bitcoin miner might be your new favorite heater. ❄️⛏️🔥 In Episode 18 of The Bitcoin Mining Show, Joe “Cinco Doggos” Spencer sits down with Kris Konicki from Altair Tech to talk home Bitcoin mining, heat reuse, and getting ready for colder weather. We kick things off with a recap of the Midwest Bitcoin Summit in Columbus, Ohio: meeting new miners, hands-on demonstrations, and the conversations around waste energy, stranded energy, and putting mining heat to work. Then we get practical with three miners from Canaan’s Avalon Home Series: the Nano 3S, Mini 3, and Avalon Q. From a little warmth under your desk to heating a living room, workshop, or greenhouse, we discuss where these machines fit—and what to consider before plugging one in. In this episode: ₿ Midwest Bitcoin Summit highlights and onboarding new miners ₿ Heat reuse, heat-punking, and the value of useful heat ₿ Avalon Nano 3S: a simple starting point for home mining ₿ Avalon Mini 3: thermostat-controlled heating that also mines Bitcoin ₿ Avalon Q: more hashrate for the home miner ₿ Choosing a miner for your office, bedroom, living room, or workshop ₿ Power draw, airflow, noise, and common setup mistakes ₿ Greenhouses, heated floors, filament dryers, and the future of heat reuse We also talk about why recovering part of an existing heating expense is a different conversation from expecting a miner to erase your electric bill. And yes, there’s a Bitcoin-heated tortoise enclosure in this conversation. 🐢 🎵 STICK AROUND AFTER THE INTERVIEW! A special presentation by Cinco Doggos: “Hash Watch (Winter is Coming)” 💬 What would YOU heat with a Bitcoin miner? Tell us about your setup—or the heat-reuse project you want to build—in the comments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ CONNECT WITH KRIS KONICKI 𝕏: [https://x.com/KrisAltairTech](https://x.com/KrisAltairTech) Altair Technology: [https://www.youtube.com/@CincoDoggosMining](https://www.youtube.com/@CincoDoggosMining) 𝕏: [https://x.com/CincoDoggos](https://x.com/CincoDoggos) 🎮 Twitch: [https://www.twitch.tv/cincodoggos](https://www.twitch.tv/cincodoggos) ⚡ Lightning/Tips: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛏️ SPONSORED BY ALTAIR TECHNOLOGY MINE YOUR INDEPENDENCE™ Bitcoin miners, parts, accessories, and help planning your next mining setup. 🌐 Website: [https://www.youtube.com/@AltairTech](https://www.youtube.com/@AltairTech) 𝕏: [https://x.com/altair_tech](https://x.com/altair_tech) LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/altairtech](https://www.linkedin.com/company/altairtech) 💥 Use discount code CINCO at checkout! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Subscribe, like, and share this episode with someone who’s curious about mining Bitcoin at home. REAL LIFE PROOF OF WORK. ₿

David Branscum returns for Part Two—and we’re entering the “Villain Arc.” BIP-110, hard-fork controversy, OCEAN, DATUM, and the debate over who gets to decide what Bitcoin should be. In Episode 17 of The Bitcoin Mining Show, Joe “Cinco Doggos” Spencer and David move from the mining journey explored in Part One into a candid conversation about conviction, consensus, and what happens when disagreement turns personal. Cinco explains why he supported BIP-110 signaling—and where the hard-fork rhetoric began to lose him. David shares what drew him to OCEAN and DATUM, why voluntary choice matters, and why respect for Bitcoin’s builders doesn’t mean agreeing with every decision they make. 🔥 IN THIS EPISODE: • Cinco’s unexpected BIP-110 discussion onstage at Mining Disrupt • Supporting transaction filtering while respecting network consensus • Why OCEAN and DATUM appealed to independent miners • Miner control over block templates and transaction selection • Signaling, hard-fork proposals, and the limits of persuasion • The “one true Bitcoin” argument and Bitcoin tribalism • Personal attacks and communication failures on both sides • Self-custody, transparency, and industry accountability • Whether conflict ultimately makes Bitcoin more resilient • Adoption, “number go up,” and the people building Bitcoin’s future The “Villain Arc” is tongue-in-cheek. The questions are serious: How do we defend our convictions without demanding everyone follow us? And how do we disagree without losing sight of what brought us to Bitcoin? 💬 Where do you draw the line between advocating for Bitcoin and trying to dictate its direction? Tell us in the comments. Missed Part One? Watch Episode 16 on the Altair Tech YouTube channel for David’s journey into Bitcoin mining, energy, and large-scale infrastructure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ GUEST: DAVID BRANSCUM X: https://x.com/DavidBranscum LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbranscum/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐕 FOLLOW CINCO DOGGOS MINING Website: https://www.cincodoggos.tech X: https://x.com/CincoDoggos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CincoDoggosMining Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cincodoggos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛏️ SPONSORED BY ALTAIR TECHNOLOGY MINE YOUR INDEPENDENCE™ Looking for Bitcoin miners, replacement parts, accessories, repair services, or help scaling your mining operation? Visit Altair Technology. Website: https://altairtech.io X: https://x.com/altair_tech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/altairtech 💥 Use discount code CINCO at checkout! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Subscribe, like, and share this episode with another miner. Independent conversations matter—and so does hearing each other out. #Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #BIP110 #DavidBranscum #TheBitcoinMiningShow #OceanMining #DATUM #CincoDoggos #AltairTechnology

🎙️ THE BITCOIN MINING SHOW | EPISODE 16 DAVID BRANSCUM — PART ONE This conversation was too good to fit into a single episode. In Part One of this two-part interview, Joe “Cinco Doggos” Spencer sits down with Texas Bitcoin miner, energy developer, and power maximalist David Branscum for a candid conversation about the life experiences that brought him into Bitcoin. David’s journey didn’t begin in a boardroom or at a massive mining facility. After losing his businesses, taking a job delivering pizzas during the pandemic, and experimenting with GPU mining at home, he found his way into the industrial Bitcoin mining world. From there, David went on to work with immersion cooling, behind-the-meter generation, ERCOT, and mining developments ranging from small independent operations to projects measured in hundreds of megawatts. ⚡ IN THIS EPISODE: ✅ How David discovered Bitcoin mining through GPUs and NiceHash ✅ The painful business setback that forced him to rebuild ✅ Going from pizza delivery to industrial Bitcoin mining ✅ His introduction to immersion cooling and large-scale infrastructure ✅ Developing sites for Bitcoin mining and AI compute ✅ Finding land, securing power, and navigating ERCOT ✅ Why David considers himself a “power maximalist” ✅ Bitcoin mining as a buyer of last resort ✅ Why abundant energy is essential for human progress ✅ Behind-the-meter generation and stranded-energy opportunities ✅ The emotional side of surviving Bitcoin bear markets ✅ Why Bitcoin rewards patience, discipline, and personal responsibility ✅ David’s passion for building, learning, art, music, and koi ponds Whether you operate a single home miner, develop large-scale infrastructure, or simply want to understand the people behind Bitcoin’s hashrate, this episode offers an honest look at the curiosity, setbacks, conviction, and proof of work that shape a Bitcoin miner. 🔥 AND THIS IS ONLY PART ONE. In Episode 17, David and Cinco enter what they jokingly call the “villain arc” of the conversation: a direct and candid discussion about BIP-110, the Blake2B hard fork, and the controversy surrounding it. Part Two arrives next Thursday at 8:00 AM Central Time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ GUEST: DAVID BRANSCUM X: https://x.com/DavidBranscum LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbranscum/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐕 FOLLOW CINCO DOGGOS MINING Website: https://www.cincodoggos.tech X: https://x.com/CincoDoggos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CincoDoggosMining Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cincodoggos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛏️ SPONSORED BY ALTAIR TECHNOLOGY MINE YOUR INDEPENDENCE™ Looking for Bitcoin miners, replacement parts, accessories, repair services, or help scaling your mining operation? Visit Altair Technology. Website: https://altairtech.io X: https://x.com/altair_tech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/altairtech 💥 Use discount code CINCO at checkout! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 If you enjoyed the conversation, subscribe to The Bitcoin Mining Show, leave a comment, and share this episode with another miner. #Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #BTC #DavidBranscum #TheBitcoinMiningShow #CincoDoggos #AltairTechnology #ASICMining #HomeMining #IndustrialMining #ImmersionCooling #ERCOT #TexasMining #BitcoinEnergy #ProofOfWork #MiningInfrastructure #BitcoinPodcast #PowerGeneration #DataCenters #BIP110 Keywords: Bitcoin Mining, David Branscum, David Branscum Bitcoin, The Bitcoin Mining Show, Bitcoin Mining Show Episode 16, Cinco Doggos Mining, Joe Spencer, Altair Technology, Bitcoin Miner, ASIC Mining, Home Bitcoin Mining, Industrial Bitcoin Mining, Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure, Immersion Cooling, ERCOT, Texas Bitcoin Mining, Bitcoin Energy, Energy Development, Power Generation, Behind the Meter Generation, Stranded Energy, Natural Gas Bitcoin Mining, Mining Site Development, Data Center Development, Bitcoin Mining Podcast, Bitcoin Bear Market, Bitcoin Adoption, Proof of Work, Hashrate, Mining Farm, GPU Mining, NiceHash, Bitcoin Mining History, Power Maximalist, BIP-110, BIP 110 Hard Fork, Blake2B, Bitcoin Hard Fork, Episode 17