Matt Garland

Head of Revenue @Simpleminingio

[Simple Mining @simpleminingio]

At today's difficulty and Bitcoin near $71,400, our Sats and Stripes bundles are producing BTC at roughly $42,000 to $48,500 per coin.

Bundle 1 (3 units, $0.075/kWh): about $48.5k per BTC
Bundle 6 (30 units, $0.065/kWh): about $42.1k per BTC

The hosting rate moves from $0.075 down to $0.065 as the fleet grows from 3 to 30 units.

That's what bundle pricing actually does to your math.

Start mining today with Simple Mining.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@simpleminingio Red, White, & Mine

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@brfj420 @simpleminingio DM your email and let’s connect. Also check our recent emails, the upgrade program lowers rates on existing machines.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@brfj420 @simpleminingio Fair shot. Program for existing customers is live, clearly our email didn’t land. Shoot me a DM and I’ll have it resent, and/or we can schedule sometime to chat next week.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

Check out 34:31 for a surprise

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

I sat down with Dan Ives (@DivesTech) to discuss the SpaceX IPO, the AI trade across chips, software, and infrastructure, the US vs. China tech race, and what bitcoin's performance means as capital rotates into AI.

YouTube: https://t.co/2FbIfS4x2w
Apple: https://t.co/WIcrhiX3hY
Spotify: https://t.co/0g7JWslhlU

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - SpaceX IPO & the birth of a new sector
3:23 - SpaceX + Tesla merger thesis
5:51 - The AI backlash & Big Tech's PR problem
11:53 - US vs. China: who's actually winning in AI?
15:03 - Robotics, self-driving cars & physical AI
19:55 - How to invest in AI: chips, software & infrastructure
28:34 - New Fed chair, rates & macro risks
32:45 - Bitcoin vs. AI: capital rotation
37:55 - On-the-ground intel from Asia & Taiwan
40:06 - Any concerns with AI?
44:18 - Apple's AI strategy & Tim Cook stepping down
46:52 - The Ives AI ETF & portfolio construction

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

Let me pay for a Cybertruck in Bitcoin and I’ll order it tonight

SpaceX just dropped their S-1 and confirmed they’re sitting on 18,712 BTC.

Add Tesla’s steady 11,509 BTC and Elon’s companies now control 30,221 Bitcoin, $2.34 billion at today’s prices.

That puts the Musk as the 5th largest public Bitcoin holder. Once SpaceX IPOs, they’ll rank 7th on their own.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@HODL15Capital Transaction volume

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

Probably nothing

[Kalshi Crypto @Kalshi_Crypto]

BREAKING: SpaceX discloses holding 18,712 Bitcoin at a $35,000 cost basis

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@TFTC21 @Bitkey I’ll trade you a bitcoin miner for a key 😉

[TFTC @TFTC21]

We're doing another @Bitkey giveaway!

A built-in screen. No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig.

Follow @Bitkey and us, RT to enter. ✅

Winner announced Tuesday 5/26 at 4PM EST.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@willreeves Great headline

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

63% of Americans have a negative networth, where do we go from here?

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@IamWildDew @simpleminingio Hey @IamWildDew, we're not currently taking outside Hydro capacity at the moment

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

🚨Thursday, May 14th. 10:30 AM ET.

The Senate Banking Committee votes on the CLARITY Act.

The most important crypto legislation since the spot Bitcoin ETF.

What it does:

Draws a clean line between the SEC and the CFTC for digital assets. Securities go to the SEC. Commodities (Bitcoin included) go to the CFTC.

No more regulation by enforcement. No more "is it a security?" guessing game.

House passed it July 2025. White House target for signature: July 4th.

But the headline isn't the bill. It's what the bill unlocks:

🏦 Banks holding Bitcoin on balance sheet. Custody, lending, repo markets all green-lit.
🏠Bitcoin-collateralized lending at scale. A mortgage backed by your BTC, underwritten by a top-10 US bank.
🪙Tokenized real-world assets. Treasuries, real estate, private credit moving on-chain. Trillions in dry powder.
🏛️Institutional allocation. Pension funds, endowments, insurance companies. Compliance teams finally stop saying no.

This is the green light American capital has been waiting on.
Banks, pensions, sovereigns. All of them.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@seancbuckley @ChadSlimeBased $STRC at par, clarify act vote this Thursday. Will be an exciting week

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

Hey @hyperhashtech, excited to see your offer was accepted. The marketplace works as intended, after an offer is accepted we run a final maintenance check on the machine before finalizing the sale to make sure it's in acceptable condition. That step protects every buyer, including you. Someone from our team will be in touch shortly with the next steps.

[Simple Mining @simpleminingio]

Buying Bitcoin on Coinbase is one-for-one.

$7 in, $7 of Bitcoin out.

Mining flips the math.

$7 of power through a miner can produce $14-15 of Bitcoin TODAY.

Here's why it works:

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

@theallinpod was Elon inspired by the Pod?

CC @DavidSacks @friedberg @Jason @chamath

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

Most Bitcoiners are going to lose the game.

Not because they bought the wrong asset. Because they're playing fiat rules with Bitcoin orange paint.

The default plan is still: stack sats for 30 years, retire, sell them off, hope you die before the stack runs out. That's a 401(k) strategy with extra steps. You worked, you saved, you sold, you died with zero, just dressed in orange.

Here's the play almost nobody runs:

— Use credit to buy Bitcoin mining equipment
— Depreciate that equipment against your income (the IRS lets you do this)
— The taxes you reclaim → more Bitcoin
— The miners produce more Bitcoin every single day
— Your reserve grows. Your collateral grows. The loop compounds.

The government is paying you to accumulate Bitcoin. That's not a loophole, it's the tax code working exactly as written. Usually it's the play reserved for billionaires, sovereign wealth funds, and corporate treasuries. Bitcoin mining equipment is what puts the same playbook within reach of a high-earning household.

The whole point of a personal treasury isn't to leave your kids a pile of coins. It's to leave them the system that produces the coins. They don't start at zero. They start one block higher than you did.

If you're watching 30–40% of your income evaporate to taxes every April, there's a version of your life where that same money is buying Bitcoin instead, depreciating against your tax bill, and producing more Bitcoin while you sleep.

That's what we build at @simpleminingio . Happy to walk anyone through it.

[Matt Garland @Garland_Matt]

What’s happens when STRC purchases 30,000 BTC in a bull market with thin selling pressure?