Podcasts: Bitcoin Mining: Get Poor Slow? With Steve Barbour 🔗 20 days ago

Steve Barbour, owner of Bitcoin mining and oil and gas services company Upstream Data, joins the show to discuss who should get into Bitcoin mining, what problems Bitcoin mining solves and what he expects going into another Bitcoin bull market.

Watch a video version of the show here.

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:30 Introducing Steve Barbour

00:04:12 Bitcoin mining & energy

00:07:33 Upstream Data's origins

00:14:13 Upstream Data's naming

00:19:35 Canadian oil vs. Bitcoin

00:24:35 Upstream Data's services

00:32:54 Colorado oil & Bitcoin

00:36:11 Bitcoin vs oil cycles

00:41:45 Bitcoin & AI

00:45:00 Water vs. air cooling

00:49:05 Advice for new miners

00:53:59 Mining contract tips

00:57:19 When to start mining

01:01:31 Steve on Bitcoin ordinals

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