#274: Canada's nonsensical restrictions, home mining, and oil & gas companies mining bitcoin with Steve Barbour

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder and CEO of Upstream Data, to discuss:

- Canada during COVID

- Mouth breathing regulations

- Building products for home miners

- Oil and gas companies mining bitcoin

- Are we reaching a tipping point?

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up, Freaks? That your boy, I've already been here to introduce this rip of Tales from the Crypt.
0:06.5	I sat back down with our good friend, our base Canadian friend from up north.
0:10.5	Steve Barber, founder and CEO of Upstream Data, to talk about a lot of things.
0:15.7	The lock-up situation up in Canada, how it's affecting businesses, the impediment of bureaucracy
0:25.2	and regulations and how that's affecting businesses in Canada specifically. Then we changed the tone
0:32.0	and got into some optimistic things around Bitcoin, Bitcoin mining. And the products at
0:36.0	upstream data is pushing out and has on the horizon.
0:39.3	I hope you guys enjoy it.
0:40.5	Steve is an incredible Bitcoin or incredible human being, and I'm very excited that he's
0:44.5	going to be a father soon.
0:45.8	We talk about that in the episode, so I feel comfortable saying that.
0:48.1	This writ was brought to you by your good friends at the motherfucking cash up.
0:52.4	Cash up.
0:52.8	So you stack sats, send sats, receive sats and sell sats.
0:55.0	We're saying sats, sats, sat, sats.
0:57.0	Because sats are the standard.
0:58.0	There's 100 million sats, one whole Bitcoin.
1:00.0	You don't want to buy a whole bitcoin or a fraction of a bitcoin.
1:02.0	You can stack whole sats.
1:04.0	Instead, you can dump your cuckbucks for sats.
1:06.0	It's a hot thing to do. A lot of people are doing it. Cash app makes it extremely easy. Cash app's becoming
1:11.4	a new bank of the future. It can be your bank and get your paychecks direct deposit into it. It's
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