HashrateUp - A Bitcoin Mining Podcast
byJesse
Technology
HashrateUp is a podcast that delves into Bitcoin mining and exciting projects, utilizing hashrate production to unlock new potentials in the broader energy industry. From details about innovative mining operations to exciting applications powered by classic energy resources, we’ll discuss the various ways the Bitcoin network is powered and its impact on the environment. Join us as we talk with industry experts, researchers, and thought leaders to understand how Bitcoin is shaping the future of power and investigate the energy challenges and opportunities Bitcoin and its ecosystem bring to the table. Whether you are an industry professional, thought leader, or
Episodes(40 episodes)
The Era of Giant Bitcoin Mines Is Over
Curtailing your mine can cost you more than running it. Dan Lawrence, CEO and co-founder of OBM, started mining in a garage in Maryland in 2017 and built Foreman to stop driving an hour to reboot machines. Today Foreman turns Bitcoin miners on and off based on power prices, profitability and grid stress. Now Dan is building Vantage, a platform that reads the utility meter every 10 seconds and shows miners what their power bill really looks like.Dan explains why demand charges punish miners who shut down, how one peak early in the month sets...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 35m 45s
Now Live: HashrateUp Hydro Hosting - Think Long-Term
HashrateUp Hydro Hosting is live: enterprise-grade, hydro-cooled hosting in Texas, now open to small miners starting at just one machine.👉 Get started: https://hashrateup.comAfter three years of selling miners and connecting clients directly with hosts, I've decided to aggregate smaller allocations for a facility that usually only works with large orders. In this video, I explain why I waited, why I think now is a great time to mine, and how to calculate your real cost to mine one Bitcoin.My thesis: with AI competing for...
Published: Oct 20, 2026Duration: 19m 13s
Public Miners Just Unplugged $1.5B of Hardware for AI [NEWS]
Public Bitcoin miners shed about 75 EH/s in the first half of 2026, roughly $1.5 billion worth of mining hardware, as their power moves to AI. In this NEWS episode, Jesse breaks down who is leaving, where the hashrate is going and what it means for the miners who stay.Hashprice is back at $38.88, but a +6.3% difficulty adjustment is coming. Ethiopia cuts miners' power by 75%, CleanSpark's $6.6B lease turns out to be with Meta, and public miners carry $35B in AI debt. Meanwhile the US keeps losing hashrate while Pakistan, Venezuela and Paraguay come back online...
Published: Oct 17, 2026Duration: 14m 40s
He Mined in UAE & Ethiopia. Both Turned Against Him.
Cheap power means nothing if the government turns against you. Giannis Andreou, CEO of Bitmern Mining, started hosting Bitcoin miners in the UAE on agricultural power below 6¢/kWh, was forced out when the government banned that power, moved to Ethiopia, and is now watching the same story repeat as the Ethiopian government takes over mining and large operators pack up and leave.Giannis breaks down what went wrong in both countries, why it took 45 days to get his miners out of the UAE, how Ethiopia's uptime fell to 70% before things got worse, and why e...
Published: Oct 14, 2026Duration: 36m 8s
Texas Just Changed the Rules for Bitcoin Miners
Texas is ending 4CP. The incentive that saved flexible miners roughly $50,000 per MW per year is likely in its final season, and ERCOT is moving toward 12CP by 2028. Haley Thomson, Director of Energy at Luxor, explains what that means for Bitcoin miners and who ends up paying for the grid.Haley breaks down how 4CP actually works, why firm loads are pushing for change, and how 18+ GW of new battery storage has compressed capacity prices across ERCOT. We also cover why Bitcoin mining is close to the perfect grid-balancing load, how batteries and miners compare as grid assets, and...
Published: Sep 26, 2026Duration: 56m 23s
This Is the "Polymarket" for Bitcoin Miners
Matteo Spinosa, founder and CEO of Doefin, built the first accessible prediction market for Bitcoin miners to hedge difficulty. Doefin lets miners and traders take a directional view on network hashrate — or lock in revenue certainty before difficulty spikes — using a Polymarket-style venue where price equals probability.In this episode, Matteo breaks down why Bitcoin miners have historically been unbankable and uninvestable: difficulty volatility has run twice as volatile as the S&P 500, making cash flow impossible to forecast. Doefin gives miners a primitive tool to stabilize revenue, or to speculate on where hashrate is g...
Published: Sep 22, 2026Duration: 41m 28s
This Bitcoin Boiler Pays for Itself in 2 Years
Elmeri Suomi runs a heating company that happens to mine Bitcoin. His product, the SunBit Bitcoin Boiler, drops one or two hydro-cooled ASICs into a water tank, heats a house to 60°C, and lets the mining revenue pay the power bill — in the best case leaving the homeowner in profit on their heating. He started in water-to-air heat pump sales, began mining as a hobby in 2020, and founded SunBit in 2023 once the two worlds clicked.In this episode we get into the economics that make consumer-scale mining work at 7–12¢/kWh power: not fat mining margin...
Published: Sep 14, 2026Duration: 34m 25s
Zcash Miners Earn 7x Bitcoin's Revenue. But There's a Catch. [NEWS]
Hash price is holding at elevated levels, but Bitcoin mining is entering a very different kind of market. Public miners are shedding hashrate, AI infrastructure keeps absorbing power, and for the first time in years the network may be facing a genuine period of declining hashrate.In this news roundup: Zcash mining economics are exploding as Z15 Pros generate multiples of current Bitcoin mining revenue, Tether walks away from a $120M mining investment in Uruguay after a power dispute, Bitdeer approaches 9% of Bitcoin block rewards, and AWS + Nvidia plan another 2 million GPUs as AI infrastructure keeps expanding.<...
Published: Sep 9, 2026Duration: 18m 42s
They Could Have Built This Years Ago. Nobody Did.
Michael Schmidt, better known as Schnitzel, bought a hundred S19J Pros for $40 each. Machines that used to cost $15,000. He's bringing them back with open-source firmware he built in his garage, with help from an AI agent and about eight burned hashboards along the way.Michael is one of the lead engineers at the 256 Foundation, and he's back on the show to talk about Magina. It's an open-source firmware that does things Braiins, Luxor, Vnish and stock firmware simply won't. You can ramp a miner from 3,000W down to 1,000W in three to five...
Published: Aug 31, 2026Duration: 40m 50s
Old ASICs, $0.058 Power & a 50/50 Profit Split w/ Ben Smith
Most people scrap their old ASICs, ship them overseas, or let them gather dust. Ben Smith (Bear Market Mining) offers a fourth option: profit-split hosting that keeps end-of-life machines online in the US. Ben joins me — you can hear the miners running in the background — to break down the model he built at his Walnut Ridge site: a 5.8¢/kWh all-in rate, a straight 50/50 split of net profit after power (60/40 on S21s), no deposits, no rack fees, and no long-term lock-in. We get into why he'd rather stack the Bitcoin than take your dollars, the 10,000-unit S19 redeployment that inspi...
Published: Aug 25, 2026Duration: 31m 26s
What to Do With Old ASICs Nobody Will Buy ♻️
♻️ Get a free quote from 256 Recycling: https://256recycling.com/Got old ASICs you can't sell, plug in, or ship? HashrateUp has partnered with 256 Recycling to turn dead mining hardware into upfront cash.Thousands of S19J Pros and older units are stranded — no buyers, too expensive to export, and they often arrive broken. 256 Recycling collects your gear (hashboards, PSUs, PDUs, cables, fans), pays you upfront, and takes the whole headache off your hands.WHAT YOU GET:✅ Upfront cash for your scrap ASICs — small or l...
Published: Aug 22, 2026Duration: 5m 4s
Bitcoin's Back - Miners Are Quitting for AI Anyway [NEWS]
Bitcoin's back above $70K and hash price ripped more than 10% — from the lows of $31 all the way to $35. Great news for anyone running machines. But public miners are still dismantling capacity to chase AI money, and this may be the first true hashrate bear market ever.In this news roundup: a difficulty adjustment looms that could confirm bullish conditions, public miners have sold most of their BTC stack, Russia bans mining in Moscow through 2032, and the AI pivot keeps swallowing gigawatts — Riot's confirmed 20-year Anthropic lease, Core Scientific's Polaris deal, Cipher, TeraWolf, Ionic and more...
Published: Aug 21, 2026Duration: 20m 26s
The Firmware Every Miner Needs w/ Brandon
Third-party firmware on WhatsMiner didn't exist. Now it does. Brandon McWard (Associate Product Manager, Firmware at Luxor) joins me on site — you can hear the ASICs — to walk through LuxOS running on an M50S+, live screen share, feature by feature. We cover why MicroBT stock firmware has been a closed box for years, how Advanced Thermal Management replaces the binary "sensor trips, machine off" logic, why changing a power target on stock firmware costs you a full reboot and retune, and the niche feature built for one oil field client: Hash on Disconnect, which keeps machines hashing synthetic work...
Published: Aug 19, 2026Duration: 48m 7s
Why BIP-110 Was Dead on Arrival w/ Chris
Bitcoin nearly split in two. On BIP110 activation day, a chain split actually happened — and almost nobody noticed. Coinjoined Chris (Seedor, Bitsurance) joins me to break down what BIP110 really was, why it was dead on arrival with under 6% real node support and near-zero hashrate, and what it teaches us about how consensus in Bitcoin actually gets decided. We go deep on fake pubkeys, OP_RETURN limits, relay policy vs consensus, the OP_RETURN spam wars since 2023, mining pool centralization, and why the "economic node" — not one-node-one-vote — is what really matters. If you mine Bitcoin but never think about what y...
Published: Aug 14, 2026Duration: 1h 21m 58s
Is the Big Rotation Back to Bitcoin Already Here? [NEWS]
🛠 Sponsored by:Altair Technology — ASIC hardware, replacement parts & mining infrastructureCode: HASHRATEUPhttps://altairtech.io/aff/125/Luxor — Mining software, firmware & hashrate toolshttps://luxor.tech/Hash price bounced from the high 20s back to ~$32, Bitcoin difficulty is down year-over-year for only the second time ever, and the great AI pivot may be running into its first real wall.In this news roundup, I break down whether the AI trade is finally cracking — and whether c...
Published: Aug 10, 2026Duration: 27m 51s
You're Securing Your Bitcoin Wrong w/ Max Hillebrand
🔗 GUEST LINKS:Max Hillebrand — Sound Money Solutions: https://soundmoneysolutions.io/Max on Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vtPersonal site / archive: https://towardsliberty.com/Mention HashrateUp when you reach out to Sound Money Solutions.🛠 Sponsored by:Luxor, Mining software, firmware & hashrate toolshttps://luxor.tech/Altair Technology, ASIC hardware, replacem...
Published: Aug 6, 2026Duration: 48m 24s
His Energy Cost Is NEGATIVE 2.67¢/kWh w/ Bipin Patel
Bitcoin mining can be more than a 24/7 race for cheap power.In this episode, I sit down with Bipin Patel, CEO of Flexionics, to talk about how their team uses Bitcoin mining infrastructure as a flexible energy asset in Sweden. The interesting part is the framing: Flexionics does not primarily think of itself as a Bitcoin miner, but as an energy company, and even more specifically, as an energy security company.We get into frequency regulation, why older ASICs can make sense when uptime is intentionally low, how the...
Published: Jul 30, 2026Duration: 41m 20s
Why This Miner Refuses to Pivot to AI w/ Raphael Zagury
🔗 GUEST LINKS- Raphael Zagury (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/rzagury/- Elektron Energy: https://elektronenergy.io/- Twitter/X: @alphazeta ("Here Be Dragons" & monthly mining reports)🛠 SPONSORED BY- Luxor – Mining software, firmware & hashrate tools https://luxor.tech/- Altair Technology – ASIC hardware, replacement parts & mining infrastructure Code: HASHRATEUP https://altairtech.io/aff/125/📄 OVERVIEWEveryone's leaving Bitcoin mining for AI. Raphael Zagury — co-founder & CEO of Elektron Energy, one of the largest pri...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 54m 20s
Why Scandinavia Is Bitcoin Mining's Next Frontier w/ Lukas Pfeiffer
🛠 SPONSORED BY- Luxor – Mining software, firmware & hashrate tools https://luxor.tech/- Altair Technology – ASIC hardware, replacement parts & mining infrastructure Code: HASHRATEUP https://altairtech.io/aff/125/🔗 LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE- Gridmetry: https://gridmetry.com- Lukas Pfeiffer (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-pfeiffer-/📄 OVERVIEWIn this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse sits down with Lukas Pfeiffer, CEO & Co-Founder of Gridmetry, to break down how Bitcoin miners in Northern Europe get paid to be flexibl...
Published: Jul 13, 2026Duration: 40m 23s
A Pulse Check on Bitcoin Mining w/ Kaan Farahani
🛠 SPONSORED BY- Luxor – Mining software, firmware & hashrate tools https://luxor.tech/- Altair Technology – ASIC hardware, replacement parts & mining infrastructure Code: HASHRATEUP https://altairtech.io- SoloMining – Home & solo mining made easy Code: HASHRATEUP https://solomining.de🔗 LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE- Hashrate Index: https://hashrateindex.com/- Kaan Farahani (X): https://x.com/brightsideBTC- Luxor Bitcoin mining services: hello@luxor.tech or https://luxor.tech📄 OVERVIEW...
Published: Jul 6, 2026Duration: 59m 33s