"I Was Mining Bitcoin In 2013" w/ Colin Kruse

We cover:
🔹 Colin Kruse’s origin story as a Bitcoin miner starting in 2012 with GPUs and early mining pools like Slush and HHTT
🔹 The wild west of early Bitcoin mining and how he found five blocks solo mining
🔹 Why SHA-256 became a turning point for Colin in understanding how time and energy equal money
🔹 A deep dive into ASIC evolution—from 110nm to 5nm—and why 3nm may be the end of Moore’s Law
🔹 How wasted electricity could be turned into warmth and wealth via heat recapture mining
🔹 Bitcoin mining as a tool for stabilizing energy grids and reducing energy costs through demand response
🔹 Real-world examples of how miners helped prevent blackouts in Texas during winter storms
🔹 The future of heating with mining rigs and how Colin is working on a hot tub powered by an S9 miner
🔹 How Bitcoin mining can delay the need for new gas plants and support electrification goals
🔹 Why Colin believes Bitcoin is the real-world tether of value: “Bitcoin equals time times power”

This is a rare window into the brain of a brilliant and humble engineer who’s been living and breathing mining since the very beginning. Colin shares hard-earned wisdom, deep technical insight, and an inspiring vision for how mining can help build an abundant, energy-efficient future.

🎙 Guest: Colin Kruse
CTO, Abundant Mines
No social, just hashing in the wild

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