Home Mining: Sustainable or Expensive Hobby?
The 2021 bull run brought hundreds if not thousands of bitcoiners into the mining space. Some entered through services offered by companies like River or Compass, but many others took a DIY approach filling garages and sheds everywhere with ASICs. How have these operations fared now that the waters are much choppier and the halving is fast approaching? What has worked well? What are some lessons learned?
Partner at Ten31, Cofounder of Bitcoin Park, Open Sats, and BitcoinTV
Founder and Chief Engineer at FutureBit
Neil is a home mining enthusiast that has turned it into a career, specializing in immersion applications, midscale deployment operations, equipment procurement and energy sourcing.
econoalchemist is a privacy advocate focused on Bitcoin censorship resistance & self-custody. He has contributed several articles to Bitcoin Magazine, the Braiins Mining Blog, & the Upstream Data News letter. Conference presentations range from Home Mining to Self-Custody to the coal industry to cattle ranching and how it all relates back to Bitcoin.