I am grateful for Bitcoin.
It gave me a path to entrepreneurship in an industry I love and am obsessed with (oil and gas).
I have built a wonderful team, who builds wonderful products. We just finished a batch of these twin Chevy smallblock natural gas gensets.
They will run synchronized in parallel, and will pull Canadian heavy oil out of the ground and into the world economy.
There has been a lot of interest in the first BIP-110 signaling block produced by @barefootmining earlier today. Some of you might enjoy knowing that it was mined at one of our "wild horse" sites. It's an off-grid site powered directly from a stranded natural gas well. I certainly have nothing against grid-based mining but I find it somewhat poetic that this block was produced in the wild. To me this type of site fully embodies the spirit of Bitcoin.
Check out this drone video of the site - ironically it being shot right at the time the block was produced.
Our American team was on site this week commissioning a 800 kW 'Texas Edition' Hash Hut for an oil and gas producer in New Mexico.
Application: load up surplus power off a 480V natural gas turbine.
Our load centers generate cash, while load banks burn cash.
Learn to bitcoin!
The @upstreamdatainc team is on site at @Hut8Corp Drumheller this week tearing down and rebuilding 42 megawatts of ~2016 vintage BlockBoxACs.
Site will be upgraded to modern, 480V PDUs and racks capable of both single- and three-phase miners.
Tested our new exhaust deflectors which are collapsible and still retain heat recirculation capability.
Nothing beats this Hash Hut modular bitcoin mine design in cold weather applications!
Iowa customer and friend of Upstream @WilsonMining sent us this picture of their 900 kW Hash Hut after a rain storm (~4" of rain):
"All miners are still hashing as normal."
We do our best to design our bitcoin mining loadcenters to withstand all environmental upset conditions!
In the plains of the U.S. Midwest, an Upstream Data Hut turns wasted and stranded methane into Bitcoin. Surrounded by open skies and grazing horses, this hut houses Bitcoin mining computers, transforming unused energy into hard drive gold
A local Alberta county has now mined over $1 million USD in bitcoin using our products. Pretty cool!
Bitcoiners on staff within every government organization. #bitcoinstandard#hodl
We are continuously improving our products at @upstreamdatainc.
Today we were running a 90 kW Hash Generator at load to confirm our new air inlet design for the engine room, along with some other LoadSync automation tweaks.
I run through it here.