Enabling Electrification in Rural Africa with Bitcoin Mining | Gridless | The Mining Pod

The Mining Pod | Blockspace Media

Mar 23, 2023•33 min•Ep. 150

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Today on the show we are joined by Erick Hersman, co-founder of Gridless, a Bitcoin mining company building mini-mines on stranded energy sites in Africa. We dig into micro-grid economics, mining operations in East Africa and financing continued expansion.

https://gridlesscompute.com

https://twitter.com/GridlessCompute

Erik Hersman: https://twitter.com/whiteafrican

Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:42 Mini grid economics

04:28 Setup process

07:33 Shipping hardware in East Africa

09:29 Corruption in the supply lines

10:16 Jobs

11:58 Local building regulations

15:00 Mini grid electricity costs

18:13 Renewable energy sources

19:47 Unique challenges

22:45 Geographic distribution of sites

25:08 Security

26:06 Aspirations

28:36 Bitcoin awareness locally

31:22 Hashrate prediction

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