Galaxy Digital’s Austin Storms and Briana Sturgis join the show to discuss the latest Bitcoin mining film, The Big Empty, and if Bitcoin can really help small-town America.
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In this week’s Mining Pod, we talk with the Galaxy Digital Bitcoin mining team about their Helios Bitcoin mine in Spur, Texas, population 900! We discuss the latest film, The Big Empty, how it was received by the community and what it means to have a Bitcoin miner join rural American towns like Spur.
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:01 Guest Intros
00:02:36 Helios Mine Scale
00:03:21 Guest Bios
00:07:59 Helios Facility Size
00:11:26 Immersion Mining Process
00:13:21 Living in Dickens County
00:20:13 Suspicion of New Companies
00:23:42 Bitcoin Adoption in Towns
00:27:15 Community Interactions
00:29:32 Money & State Separation
00:33:41 Communication Barriers
00:35:06 The Legendary Pool
00:38:50 Wrapping Up
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