Welcome back to Mining Pod. On today's show, we are joined by Tom Asira of Standard Bitcoin. We recorded this conversation down at Bitcoin Park at the National Mining and Energy Summit. It was a great time. Thank you to the Bitcoin Park team for making that possible. We'd also like to thank Clean Spark, America's Bitcoin Miner, for making this show possible on the CoinDisc podcast network. You'll hear later from CleanSpark in the episode.

In today's show with Tom, we talk about mining in the southeast, the United States,

including the Tennessee Valley and how energy and infrastructure works down there for mining Bitcoin.

We also get into some counterintuitive takes on mining Bitcoin in Texas,

which I found itself very thought-provoking.

Okay, let's jump right into the show.

Tom, welcome to the Mining Pod.

What's happening, Wills, but a long time coming.

It really has.

We shit down it was probably a while ago, but we had to wait for your ordnals moment to happen.

My ordidoles moment.

And then we could tease everybody on the show.

I think one of my favorite things is, like, people probably want to think he was an ordeal person ever, and then you really came out hard for them.

Yeah. normal person ever and then you really came out hard for them yeah i'm i'm an i'm an ordinal's agitator

more than anything i i i actually i just i i i'm like a big fan at but you know like my background

with uh with great american mining was like we were kind of like a trolley account we kind of

pushed hard against um you know some of the narratives around, you know, power

consumption and things like that.

And so I'm like a big fan of like memetic energy.

And so like when the ordinal thing, the ordinal things happened, I was like, oh, man, there's

something like, you can't really touch it, but I knew it was like a very powerful kind of like

memetic tool and especially for Bitcoin and especially I was excited because in the bear market

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