Enabling Electrification in Rural Africa with Bitcoin Mining | Gridless | The Mining Pod
Channel: Compass Mining
Date: 2023-03-23

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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