The Road To 20 Exahash With Zach Bradford

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Zach Bradford, CEO of Cleanspark, to discuss Cleanspark’s exlplosive 2024 growth. From purchasing peer miner Griid to new sites in multiple states, Bradford goes through Cleanspark’s last twelve months, why the company is focused on Bitcoin and Bitcoin only, why Cleanspark is focused on building in the US (but maybe not forever!), comparative strategies like MARA’s new HODL and possibly some tech developments worth listening to the end of the show for. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:15 12 month recap of operations 05:57 Why not pivot to AI? 11:19 Texas is too crowded 13:27 International power locations 15:56 Griid acquisition 19:24 Swapping Griid's old rigs? 21:28 Texas vs Georgia 24:46 Bitcoin treasury 29:18 Marathon's current strategy 31:55 Growth strategies 37:15 Launching a pool? 38:02 Bitcoin Core development 38:55 New rigs 40:06 Wen zetahash? 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!  👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show. 👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty! Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley. - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining! "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