So, freaks, it's your boy Marty here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.

I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with Steve Barber, founder of Upstream Data,

and creator of the own mining data center, a little box that can be put on the property of oil and gas producers

so that they can use their excess, otherwise wasted gas to mine Bitcoin.

Make a little bit of money. make a little bit of money,

reduce their flare and their vent, and add to the distribution of hash power throughout the

world. Steve has a very interesting path to how he came to find Bitcoin. He was originally in the

oil and gas industry. Still is, obviously. He was working on separate projects and sort of got tired of one and fell down the

Bitcoin rabbit hole, realized how mining could really help out a large part of this industry,

the oil and gas industry, particularly.

So we dive into his story, the path he's taken, what he's learned in the mining world,

the difference between mining on the grid and mining on these oil fields, the variables that

come into play, specifically on the oil fields, what he's seen up to this point, why he picks

the hardware and the infrastructure, the container builds

that he does. And we get into the importance of Bitcoin, why it's so important that we have a

distributed peer-to-peer digital cash in the modern age. I think you guys are really going to like this episode.

I know I certainly did.

This is the first episode.

I threw back many beers and quite some times.

By the end, it was a little passionate, passionate drunk Marty came out.

Sorry if I started to slur at my words.

That's on me.

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