Enabling Electrification in Rural Africa with Bitcoin Mining | Gridless | The Mining Pod

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 MINE Start mining your own bitcoins with Compass. https://bit.ly/3CehBf1 WATCH https://youtube.com/c/CompassMining?sub_confirmation=1 LISTEN Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/3fNfrdi Spotify https://spoti.fi/3tSf9G1 Amazon https://amzn.to/3557cqg Anchor https://bit.ly/3rmb7UF Fountain https://bit.ly/3NeNTec RSS https://bit.ly/3chpULV LEARN Every week, Compass sends a memo to over 18,000 professional miners and investors with the most important news and data in cryptocurrency mining. Get the free newsletter in your inbox too: https://bit.ly/3vOGzxD FOLLOW Twitter: https://twitter.com/compass_mining LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compassmining Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices