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GoMining's Vision for Mining and Spending Bitcoin in 2026

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

GoMining CEO Mark Zalan takes the stage at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 to discuss systemic infrastructure barriers to Bitcoin payments and how GoMining is building solutions to bridge the gap between holding and utility. GoMining CEO Mark Zalan took the stage at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 for a fireside chat challenging the industry’s reliance on the HODL narrative. Drawing on data from a survey of over 5,700 users, Zalan revealed a stark reality: more than 55% of bitcoiners rarely or never use BTC for real-world payments, despite nearly 80% supporting its adoption as a currency. In this session, Zalan dismantles the myth that bitcoin’s primary hurdle is a lack of interest, pointing instead to a systemic failure in infrastructure. He explores the critical barriers identified by the data including limited merchant acceptance, high fees, and price volatility—while detailing how GoMining is building the solutions to bridge this gap, from the rollout of native Layer 1 payment rails to a yield product.

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0:00.0

Okay, Mark, welcome to stage. We're going to be talking about Bitcoin adoption.

0:17.3

Thank you.

0:17.6

You guys have quite the product suite coming out, and you guys have been mostly focused

0:22.3

on Bitcoin mining in the recent past, but going forward, you guys have a ton of different

0:28.0

products coming out.

0:29.3

Give me a 30-second overview of Go-Mining, and then let's talk about the new non-spends,

0:33.4

and then I'm going to grill you with a few questions around like Go-mining and what you guys

0:37.1

are building.

0:38.5

Yeah, perfect.

0:48.0

So we've, when we started four years ago, we wanted to simplify Bitcoin mining.

0:52.6

Traditionally, it's been very complex, very capital intensive. It requires somebody to have an extensive technical expertise to be able to do it.

1:00.8

And we wanted to sort of figure out a way to go back to the ruse of crypto, which is everyday

1:07.9

people figuring out how to run something for their own benefits.

1:12.6

So over the last four years we've built our digital miner product, which is the ability,

1:21.6

which provided the ability for normal people to download our app and starting at $25, start mining, basically, by a digital

1:31.2

hash rate represented by an NFT, and then every day, every 24 hours, receive Bitcoin mining

1:38.8

rewards. So almost 5 million people at this point have been mining with us through the years it's been

1:48.2

very successful and we over the past I guess past 12 months or so we we started to look where our simplification efforts should be focused next and the

2:09.6

payment and the ability to spend Bitcoin have seemed like they've been right for simplification. So over the last six to nine months,

2:19.8

we've been sort of shifting our product focus in that direction.

2:23.0

And that's what we're heard to talk about today.

2:25.2

Awesome.

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