Hedging Hashrate | Block Green | The Mining Pod

Today we are joined by Sebastien Hess, co-founder of Block Green, a protocol for selling hashrate. We discuss how miner’s sell hashrate, who is buying hashrate and how Block Green thinks of energy. https://www.block.green Sebastien Hess: https://twitter.com/SebastienHess Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Start 00:36 Black Green overview 03:58 Hashrate derivative 05:48 What is a vault? 06:51 Onboarding miners 09:05 Contracts & collateral 11:12 Who is buying? 13:02 Liquidity 14:47 Size of contracts 15:44 Minimum hash 17:28 EU vs US customers 18:35 EU mining landscape 20:56 Energy source profile 22:54 KYM process 25:33 Future of Block Green 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