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Auradine Bitcoin ASIC Performance With Brad Cuddy

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There’s a ton of new units on the market, including new players like Auradine. But how do these units actually hold up when deployed to the field and under harsh environments? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to walk us through his experience working with the units. We also discuss alternative units like Bitmain and MicroBT, dry cooling, hydro vs. immersion and various other topics relating to technical Bitcoin mining. Lastly, we finish with a conversation on the Texas Bitcoin mining landscape including

👉 Get tickets to OP_NEXT by visiting the website! And use discount code OCTOBER to get 25% off at check out!

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:01 Brad's background

05:53 Types of ASIC cooling

09:25 Bitmain vs MicroBT

12:20 Dry cooling

16:34 Hydro vs immersion

21:38 Immersion form factor challenges

22:26 MicroBT immersion deployment

24:21 Cost difference

25:42 Cooling fluid & thermodynamics

28:24 Fluid longevity

29:14 Auradine

32:32 Firmware & chip uptime

34:47 Auradine conclusion

35:35 What cooling is best?

37:14 Extreme temps

39:23 Curtailing with hydro units

42:21 New Bitmain unit

45:34 Bitmain changing PDUs

48:13 Curtailing (4CP)

49:15 Curtailing (PPA)

51:16 Ancillary grid services

52:43 4CP operations

55:10 Renewable & Texas grid

58:56 Future of solar

1:03:52 Miners, data centers & interconnections

1:06:22 Texas' isolated grid

Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!

Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!

👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!

Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset.

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

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There’s a ton of new units on the market, including new players like Auradine. But how do these units actually hold up when deployed to the field and under harsh environments? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to walk us through his experience working with the units. We also discuss alternative units like Bitmain and MicroBT, dry cooling, hydro vs. immersion and various other topics relating to technical Bitcoin mining. Lastly, we finish with a conversation on the Texas Bitcoin mining landscape including

👉 Get tickets to OP_NEXT by visiting the website! And use discount code OCTOBER to get 25% off at check out!

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:01 Brad's background

05:53 Types of ASIC cooling

09:25 Bitmain vs MicroBT

12:20 Dry cooling

16:34 Hydro vs immersion

21:38 Immersion form factor challenges

22:26 MicroBT immersion deployment

24:21 Cost difference

25:42 Cooling fluid & thermodynamics

28:24 Fluid longevity

29:14 Auradine

32:32 Firmware & chip uptime

34:47 Auradine conclusion

35:35 What cooling is best?

37:14 Extreme temps

39:23 Curtailing with hydro units

42:21 New Bitmain unit

45:34 Bitmain changing PDUs

48:13 Curtailing (4CP)

49:15 Curtailing (PPA)

51:16 Ancillary grid services

52:43 4CP operations

55:10 Renewable & Texas grid

58:56 Future of solar

1:03:52 Miners, data centers & interconnections

1:06:22 Texas' isolated grid

Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!

Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner!

👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media!

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show!

Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer Damien Somerset.

"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC and distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Damien Somerset.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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