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Mr Obnoxious

Bitcoin & AI Power Scarcity with Daniel Roberts - WBD814

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Roberts is the co-founder of IREN. In this interview, we discuss surging demand vs power scarcity chokepoints, balance sheet strategies, changing AI & Bitcoin energy use narratives, mining in a bull-run and a multi-decade outlook.

Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-ai-power-scarcity

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This insatiable demand for energy and compute was going to fuel the next wave of how society works and interacts together.

0:09.8

And I think six years on, it's playing out probably faster than even we expected.

0:14.7

Hello there how you all doing well crazy Bitcoiners.

0:19.2

Right I'm going to be heading out to New York on Monday and I'm going to be in

0:23.4

pub key on Tuesday evening if anyone wants to come down and grow a beer let me know

0:27.2

gonna be hanging with my boy Thomas can't wait to get out to New York

0:30.8

love that city then I'm going to be heading out to Austin. We have

0:34.8

consensus. Very excited about that. Very excited about hanging out with the

0:38.8

Austin, Bitcoin crew. And then I'm off to Norway. I'm off to Oslo for the Oslo Freedom Forum.

0:44.3

Also very excited about that. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks.

0:47.3

Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, which is brought to you by the

0:50.9

Absolute Legends of Iron, formerly known as iris energy.

0:54.3

iron is using their next generation data centers to power the future of

0:57.9

Bitcoin mining and AI using 100% renewable energy.

1:01.7

iron remains the same business with the same goals,

1:05.0

now just with a different name.

1:06.6

I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I have Iron co-cio Dan Roberts back on the show.

1:12.3

Now we're firmly through the halving. CEO, Dan Romer's back on the show.

1:12.5

Now we're firmly through the halving, it's time to get into all things mining to find out how

1:17.6

miners dealt with the halving, how Dan is building a multi-decade company scaling Bitcoin mining for a full

1:25.2

bull market and implementing AI compute alongside this. We also get into the

1:31.6

Morgan Stanley report that discusses why Bitcoin miners a uniquely

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