
Bitcoin Park
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Bitcoin Park is community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots freedom tech adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
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Feb 13, 2025 • 25min
NEMS25: Mining in the Bush Panel Discussion
Keywords:off-grid mining, Bitcoin, community impact, remote operations, mining challenges, innovative solutions, bush mining, energy efficiency, cryptocurrency, sustainable miningSummaryThis conversation explores the intricacies of off-grid or bush mining, focusing on the unique challenges and experiences faced by miners in remote locations.The speakers share their personal journeys into the world of Bitcoin mining, emphasizing the importance of community engagement, innovative solutions, and the impact of mining on local economies.They discuss the technical and logistical hurdles of operating in isolated areas, the necessity of building trust with local communities, and the creative adaptations required to succeed in such environments.The conversation is punctuated with anecdotes that highlight both the difficulties and the resilience of those involved in bush mining, ultimately painting a picture of a growing and evolving industry.Takeaways: Off-grid mining requires creativity and effort. Community engagement is crucial for successful mining operations. Bitcoin mining can directly impact local economies positively. Remote mining operations face unique logistical challenges. Building trust with local communities enhances project success. Innovative solutions are necessary for harsh environments. Tele-mining is a new concept for remote operations. The balance of risk and reward is essential in partnerships. Stories from the field illustrate the resilience of miners. The future of bush mining looks promising with ongoing innovations.Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Off-Grid Mining02:51 Experiences in Bush Mining06:11 Challenges of Remote Mining Operations09:00 Community Engagement and Impact14:58 Innovative Solutions and Adaptations19:13 Stories from the Field24:00 Future of Bush Mining——Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostrOdell: https://primal.net/odellRod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rodHarry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3Robert Warren, @BikesandBitcoinBitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Jan 14, 2025 • 1h 9min
Bitcoin Brainstorm 15 | Quantum Computing
Originally published by ARK Invest on January 2, 2024:
Since inception, ARK has researched and published thoughts on the cryptocurrency ecosystem within Big Ideas and through articles, whitepapers, monthly Bitcoin reports and podcasts. Now, in coordination with Bitcoin Park, ARK is pleased to introduce a monthly conversation with leaders in the Bitcoin space, to discuss everything happening in the rapidly-changing and still nascent Bitcoin ecosystem. Published through the For Your innovation podcast channels, this monthly series aims to be informative and enlightening, including experts with diverse viewpoints.
Guests on this month’s Bitcoin Brainstorm include:
Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO, ARK Invest
Rod Roudi: Co-Founder, Bitcoin Park
Adam Back: CEO, Blockstream
Frank Downing: Director of Research, ARK Invest
Matt Corallo: Open Source Engineer, Spiral
Matt Odell: Co-Founder, Bitcoin Park
Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com
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Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
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Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
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May 24, 2024 • 38min
Open House: Mining Distribution
This conversation was recorded at Bitcoin Park’s May 2024 Open House, a monthly meetup event at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN featuring panel discussions on various Bitcoin-focused topics.
May 2024’s Open House topic: Mining May, Life After the Halving
Recorded: May 15, 2024
Mining Distribution
with:
Matt Odell, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park
Trey Kelly, Founder & CEO - GRIID Infrastructure
Econoalchemist, Co-Host - POD256
Adam Sullivan, President & CEO - Core Scientific
skot, Instigator - Bitaxe
Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
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Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

May 22, 2024 • 24min
Open House: Fireside Chat with Hong Kim, Co-Founder & CTO - Bitwise
This conversation was recorded at Bitcoin Park’s May 2024 Open House, a monthly meetup event at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN featuring panel discussions on various Bitcoin-focused topics.
May 2024’s Open House topic: Mining May, Life After the Halving
Recorded: May 15, 2024
Fireside Chat with Hong Kim, Co-Founder & CTO - Bitwise
with:
Matt Odell, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park
Hong Kim, Co-Founder & CTO - Bitwise
Bitwise website: https://bitwiseinvestments.com/
Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Apr 24, 2024 • 33min
Open House: Halving Celebration + Food Sovereignty & Bitcoin
This conversation was recorded at Bitcoin Park’s April 2024 Open House, a monthly meetup event at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN featuring panel discussions on various Bitcoin-focused topics.
April 2024’s Open House topic: Halving Celebration + Food Sovereignty & Bitcoin
Recorded: April 17, 2024
with:
Rod @bitkite, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park
Matt Odell, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park
Harry Gray, Co-Host - The Meat Mafia Podcast
Eatwild: https://eatwild.com/
The Weston A. Price Foundation: https://www.westonaprice.org/
Pure Pasture Farms: https://purepasturefarms.com/
Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Apr 1, 2024 • 25min
Open House: ‘Bitcoin: What Does Mainstream Economics Have to Say?' w/ Professor Josh Hendrickson
This conversation was recorded at Bitcoin Park’s March 2024 Open House, a monthly meetup event at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN featuring panel discussions on various Bitcoin-focused topics.
March 2024’s Open House topic: Economics & Incentives of Bitcoin
‘Bitcoin: What Does Mainstream Economics Have to Say?’ w/ Professor Josh Hendrickson
Recorded: March 20, 2023
with:
Rod @bitkite, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park
Professor Josh Hendrickson, Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department - University of Mississippi & recent author of the paper: “Bitcoin: What Does Mainstream Economics Have to Say?”
Link to the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4744828
Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Mar 27, 2024 • 22min
Open House: Free Money w/ Brian Domitrovic and Benton Howser
This conversation was recorded at Bitcoin Park’s March 2024 Open House, a monthly meetup event at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, TN featuring panel discussions on various Bitcoin-focused topics.
March 2024’s Open House topic: Economics & Incentives of Bitcoin
Free Money w/ Brian Domitrovic and Benton Howser
Recorded: March 20, 2023
with:
Rod @bitkite, Co-Founder - Bitcoin Park
Brian Domitrovic, Richard Strong Scholar at the Laffer Center and Co-Author - Free Money
Benton Howser, Atlas Veritas, hedge fund owner, and co-author, Free Money
"Free Money" explores the historical consistency of Bitcoin with American monetary traditions, highlighting its similarities to the pre-1913 era of privately made money and the principles of the Gold Standard, suggesting that Bitcoin represents a modern continuation of these foundational monetary concepts that fueled the industrial revolution.
Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 9min
Bitcoin Brainstorm 08 | An Overview Of Bitcoin Mining
Originally published by ARK Invest on March 6, 2024:
Since inception, ARK has researched and published thoughts on the cryptocurrency ecosystem within Big Ideas and through articles, whitepapers, monthly Bitcoin reports and podcasts. Now, in coordination with Bitcoin Park, ARK is pleased to introduce a monthly conversation with leaders in the Bitcoin space, to discuss everything happening in the rapidly-changing and still nascent Bitcoin ecosystem. Published through the For Your innovation podcast channels, this monthly series aims to be informative and enlightening, including experts with diverse viewpoints.
Guests on this month’s Bitcoin Brainstorm include:
Luke Dashjr: Founder and CTO, OCEAN, Bitcoin Core Developer
Trey Kelly: Founder, Chairman and CEO, GRIID
Steve Barbour: Founder and CEO, Upstream Data
John Stefanopolous: Founder and CEO, FutureBit
Benjamin Yi: Executive Chairman, Riot Platforms
Yassine Elmandjra: Director of Digital Assets, ARK Invest
Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO, ARK Invest
Rod Roudi: Co-Founder, Bitcoin Park
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com
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Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 22min
Bitcoin Brainstorm 07 | The Bitcoin ETF: A Tipping Point?
Originally published by ARK Invest on February 9, 2024:
Since inception, ARK has researched and published thoughts on the cryptocurrency ecosystem within Big Ideas and through articles, whitepapers, monthly Bitcoin reports and podcasts. Now, in coordination with Bitcoin Park, ARK is pleased to introduce a monthly conversation with leaders in the Bitcoin space, to discuss everything happening in the rapidly-changing and still nascent Bitcoin ecosystem. Published through the For Your innovation podcast channels, this monthly series aims to be informative and enlightening, including experts with diverse viewpoints.
Guests on this month’s Bitcoin Brainstorm include:
Senator Cynthia Lummis: Senator, Wyoming
Perianne Boring: CEO and Founder, Chamber of Digital Commerce
Eric Balchunas: Senior ETF Analyst, Bloomberg
Alex Thorn: Head of Research, Galaxy Digital
Ophelia Snyder: Co-Founder and President, 21Shares
Yassine Elmandjra: Director of Digital Assets, ARK Invest
Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO, ARK Invest
Rod Roudi: Co-Founder, Bitcoin Park
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com
Parker Lewis book, Gradually Then Suddenly: https://academy.saifedean.com/product...
Learn more about Senator Cynthia Lummis: https://www.lummis.senate.gov/
More FYI Podcasts: https://ark-invest.com/podcasts/
To learn more about ARK: https://arkinv.st/ARKInvest
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Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram

Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 21min
Bitcoin Brainstorm 06 | What Will 2024 Bring for Bitcoin?
Originally published by ARK Invest on January 5, 2024:
Since inception, ARK has researched and published thoughts on the cryptocurrency ecosystem within Big Ideas and through articles, whitepapers, monthly Bitcoin reports and podcasts. Now, in coordination with Bitcoin Park, ARK is pleased to introduce a monthly conversation with leaders in the Bitcoin space, to discuss everything happening in the rapidly-changing and still nascent Bitcoin ecosystem. Published through the For Your innovation podcast channels, this monthly series aims to be informative and enlightening, including experts with diverse viewpoints.
Guests on this month’s Bitcoin Brainstorm include:
Parker Lewis: Head of Business Development, Zaprite
Lyn Alden: Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy
Ryan Gentry: Director of Business Development, Lightning Labs
Preston Pysh: Show Host and Co-Founder, The Investor’s Podcast Network and General Partner, Ego Death Capital
Lucas Nuzzi: Head of Research and Development, CoinMetrics
Yassine Elmandjra: Director of Digital Assets, ARK Invest
Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO, ARK Invest
Rod Roudi: Co-Founder, Bitcoin Park
Important Links From This Episode:
• Lyn Alden’s Book, Broken Money: https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
• Parker Lewis’ Book, Gradually Then Suddenly: https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/
• Clark Moody Dashboard: Halving date tracking towards is April 19, 2024: https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashbo...
• River Lightning report: https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-...
• Preston Pysh’s 2% bitcoin portfolio reference:
/ 1349385684071677952
• Nashville Energy & Mining Summit at Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com/mining
• Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com
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Bitcoin Park is a community supported campus in Nashville, TN focused on grassroots bitcoin adoption and a home for bitcoiners to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app to stay up to date.
To learn more, please visit and join: https://bitcoinpark.com and/or join our Discord where we are most active: https://bitcoinpark.com/discord
Bitcoin Park on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_
Bitcoin Park on nostr: https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr
Odell: https://primal.net/odell
Rod @bitkite: https://primal.net/rod
Harry Sudock: https://primal.net/p/npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3
Bitcoin Park Telegram: https://bitcoinpark.com/telegram
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