4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Join Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss:
- What Great American Mining is doing
- The journey and lessons learned along the way
- Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations
- Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale
- Austin's journey with Bearbox
- How mining is ruthless capitalism
- Solving problems for oil companies
- The future of mining in North America
- much more
- Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon)
- Follow Austin on Twitter
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0:00.0 | So, what are you boy, Marty here, to introduce a very special episode, very happy and proud of this episode, proud that we're able to start talking about this. |
0:10.7 | I've been working behind the scenes outside of the podcast and the newsletter on something that I'm very excited about, a mining project, a mining operation where we're using what would |
0:23.0 | have otherwise been flared gas on an oil field to mine Bitcoin. The company I work for |
0:30.7 | behind the scenes, Great American Mining has been in a quasi-stealth mode for quite some time. |
0:36.7 | We finally have been live for about four months |
0:39.5 | now, five months almost now, geez, on site and are starting to talk about what we're doing. |
0:47.3 | So I sat down with two co-workers, Austin Storms and Tom Azaro, to chat about what we've done, |
0:53.5 | how we're helping this oil company, |
0:55.3 | how we think things may progress and why we're doing it. |
0:59.9 | So I think you guys really going to like this. |
1:02.0 | Let me know what you think. |
1:04.4 | I think it's exciting times, especially for mining in North America. |
1:10.4 | This episode of Tales from the |
1:11.3 | Crypt was brought to you by our good friends at the cash app. As I mentioned during yesterday's |
1:16.4 | episode, the cash app is helping distribute these stimulus paychecks because now they are |
1:24.1 | official bank. You can get a routing number and a account number via the cash app |
1:30.0 | and start using it as your bank. |
1:32.5 | And because of this, they're trying to help distribute these $1,200 paychecks, |
1:38.6 | even though $1,200 isn't a lot. |
1:41.7 | If you can get it, you should try to get it, |
1:43.6 | and cash app is there to help you. |
1:45.5 | There's instructions on the app. I've had a couple notifications since they released it last |
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