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THE MINING POD: From Bitcoin Mining to AI Infrastructure With John Belizaire

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4.7 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Soluna Digital Holding’s CEO John Belizaire joins "The Mining Pod" to discuss the public company’s perspective on Bitcoin mining going into the Bitcoin halving. Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here. Should Bitcoin miners think about AI? Is it too late to get in on the game? How should Bitcoin miners construct JV deals or other structures? We are joined by John Belizaire of Soluna Digital Holdings to dig into this and more. Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews Tuesday and a news show on Friday!  Check out our other shows and content by going to Blockspace.media today. Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to the Mining Pod. On today's show, we're joined by John Bellsair of Saluna Digital Holdings.

0:05.4

It's a great conversation talking a lot about infrastructure, whether that be for Bitcoin mining or AI.

0:10.3

Thank you to Saluna for making this show possible. We got into a lot of great detail on even how to work out contracts, how to think about site selection, and even more.

0:19.3

So thank you again to John and Saluna.

0:22.0

We'd also like to thank our show sponsor on the Coigness Podcast Network, CleanSpark,

0:26.0

America's Bitcoin Minor.

0:27.6

You'll hear more from CleanSpark a little bit later in today's episode.

0:31.9

Okay, before we jump on the show, if you are in the Rocky Mountain Region on April 20th,

0:35.7

you should come down to the Independence Institute.

0:37.5

We're throwing a Bitcoin halving party along with the Denver BitDevs. We'll have conversations

0:42.6

with Bitcoins. We'll do some live recordings. We'll even have some food and brews. So come on

0:47.7

down to Independence Institute on April 20th. Okay, on to the show.

1:05.5

Hey, welcome back to the mining pod.

1:08.6

Today we are joined by Saluna Holdings.

1:09.6

John, welcome to the show.

1:11.7

Thanks for making the time today. We've actually been talking about this conversation for, I think, the better part of a year now. It's about time

1:15.6

we got you on the podcast. Yeah, you guys must be busy. I missed a slot. Took me a year to get

1:22.0

back on the train here. So I appreciate you. It can be on the show and I'm happy to be here. So I appreciate you. It couldn't be on the show and I'm happy to be here. Definitely. And it's good timing. Having's here. So I think we have a lot of people who are tuning into Bitcoin mining.

1:31.0

I mean, I got a text from a friend the other day who's like, oh, Bitcoin's having like a stock

1:34.7

split coming up. Like what's going on? So I think we up to you to kind of get like the classic bio and stuff before we jump

1:46.2

in the profiling Saluna.

1:48.6

Sure.

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