Bitcoin Miners

topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 5 episodes

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7 statements about Bitcoin Miners, every show

INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Contradicted
Wachen: Bitcoin mining ASICs run at under a quarter the voltage of GPUs
“Bitcoin miners run at under a quarter of the voltage of GPUs.”
Rob Wachen Jun 30, 2026 ▶ 9:55 The Two Harvard Dropouts Who raised $800M to take on NVIDIA · Invest Like The Best
CATALYST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hertz-Shargel: Some Bitcoin mining PPAs mandate over 85% load factor
“Some of the power purchase agreements That miners have secured require a high load factor, meaning, you know, you need a high average power relative to your max power, which basically requires you to be on most of the time. And so I've seen one contract that r…”
Ben Hertz-Shargel May 11, 2023 ▶ 10:21 The great Bitcoin energy debate
CATALYST Assertion Supported
Hertz-Shargel: Many Bitcoin miners run even at $4,000/MWh power prices
“Some miners do have a price threshold which empirically is between 103 hundred dollars per megawatt hour but many have basically no threshold, and they will continue running up even into the thousands, up to 4000 dollars per per megawatt hour.”
Ben Hertz-Shargel May 11, 2023 ▶ 28:32 The great Bitcoin energy debate
CATALYST Insight
Hertz-Shargel: Grid power resale by Bitcoin miners creates no public good
“But really, the way to view this is, this was a generation that was sitting there that they were otherwise consuming. They are just refraining from consuming it at these, during these periods. So you can't credit them for, Again, for a good, you can only credi…”
Ben Hertz-Shargel May 11, 2023 ▶ 30:34 The great Bitcoin energy debate
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
Lacey: Struggling US Fossil Fuel Plants Get Lifeline From Bitcoin Miners
“What Brian saw in Lake Seneca is unfolding across the U.S. Coal and gas power plants that are under pressure in Ohio, Montana, Pennsylvania, and even elsewhere in New York are now getting an economic lifeline thanks to partnerships with Bitcoin miners.”
Stephen Lacey Apr 20, 2022 ▶ 6:11 How bitcoin is keeping zombie power plants alive
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Kwon: Bitcoin Miners Burn Energy Because Block Rewards Dwarf Transaction Fees
“You see that the block reward is a hefty, like, hundreds of millions of dollars a year, if not a billion at this point, of rewards. And the transaction fees, In comparison, are much smaller. That's why Bitcoin miners don't care about the transaction fee right …”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 6:35 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
Jentzsch: A couple dozen miners could control Bitcoin's network
“And I still think it is decentralized, but maybe not as decentralized as many people think, because there's, yeah, there is a couple of dozen of Bitcoin miners who basically control, could control the whole network.”
Christoph Jentzsch Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 12:10 781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

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