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#28 - Brent Whitehead: The Giga Energy Story and Bitcoin as the Ultimate Incentive for Revolutionizing the Energy Industry

Closing the Loop

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Bitcoin Mining - What Motivated the Urgency?

The founders of Bitcoin mining company Bitmain were just 21 years old at the time. They had to get a U-Haul up in Canada because they weren't allowed to drive on their own. "We knew if you could actually get energy that cheap and that there was that much," says CEO Matt Kucharski. The pair also wanted to be entrepreneurs, but didn't know how to go about doing it.

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