THE MINING POD: Hut 8, US Bitcoin, And Synteq With Jaime Leverton
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We’re rejoined by Jaime Leverton, former CEO at Hut 8, to discuss her exit and new role at mining broker Synteq!
Former Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton joins The Mining Pod! We go through her time at Hut 8 building an industry leading HODL, her transition out the door though the merger with US Bitcoin Corp, to her new ventures in fintech and DeFi. We lastly touch on her interests in Bitcoin stocks and equities with some advice for other CEOs in the mining space.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:28 Jaime’s bio
05:37 HUT 8"s Bitcoin treasury
08:10 Jaime’s Bitcoin moment
08:53 HUT 8 & US Bitcoin merger
12:48 Exahash headlines
14:27 Merger & debt
16:35 Transitioning out of CEO role
18:37 Jaime’s the bag holder
21:57 Infrastructure
24:05 HPC & AI demand
27:57 HPC's future form factor
31:55 Chair of the board
32:58 Hashprice & predictions
33:59 What's looking good?
37:46 Thoughts on being a public company CEO
38:57 ULYS startup
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the mining pod. On today's show, we're drawn by Jamie Leverton, the former CEO of |
| 0:04.4 | Hutt8, to talk about her time at Hutt 8. So we go back in time to 2020 when she was appointed |
| 0:09.4 | a CEO. We talk about the growth of the hoddle there, growth of the hash rate, and then we talk about |
| 0:14.8 | the merger equals with U.S. Bitcoin Corp and how she departed Hutt 8 at the beginning of this year in February. Thank you to Jamie for |
| 0:21.8 | joining the show. And thank you to Lee Bratcher and the entire North American Blockchain Summit |
| 0:27.2 | abs team for making this show possible. Before we jump into it, one note, this is an audio-only show. |
| 0:33.7 | So if you're watching on YouTube, sorry, no video. We had an issue with syncing the file. It |
| 0:38.9 | happens during these live things, but the audio is nice and crisp. So you do have that. Thank you to |
| 0:44.8 | Jamie for joining us. We go through all those things aforementioned. We also talk about her new |
| 0:49.3 | role as chair of the board at Cintech, a Bitcoin mining and GPU broker firm in the space. |
| 0:55.5 | We've had them on the show beforehand under their former name, SoutiSide Digital with |
| 0:59.4 | Terras. So go back and listen to that show from May. And then lastly, we talk about her new |
| 1:04.1 | company coming out stealth, which she is pretty bullish on. And I'd say I am too if we're talking |
| 1:08.9 | with her about it. So that's the show. Go check it out |
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| 1:29.4 | Thanks for listening to The Mining Pod. |
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