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March 18, 2025 • 31 mins
You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 10,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Want to mine Bitcoin? Check out the Blockspace Media store today! Welcome to The Mining Pod! Charlie Brady, VP of Investor Relations at BitFuFu joins us to dive into their Bitcoin mining operations. We explore their strategic expansion in Ethiopia with electricity costs under $0.04/kWh, their new 51MW Oklahoma facility targeting $0.03/kWh, and their cloud mining business that's grown to over 600,000 users. Charlie shares insights on their asset acquisition strategy, relationship with Bitmain, and plans to reach 1GW of secured power capacity by 2026. Notes: BitFuFu currently has 20.6 EH/s and 480MW hosting capacity Ethiopia electricity costs below $0.04/kWh Oklahoma site targets $0.03/kWh power costs Cloud mining business grew to 602K+ users Cloud mining = ~60% of company revenue 00:00 Start 02:09 Charlie's bio 02:31 Why work for BitFuFu? 04:00 Ethiopia 05:35 Ethiopia expansion 07:12 Ethiopia political stability 09:26 Oklahoma 11:58 Pathway to gigawatt? 12:59 AI & HPC 15:39 Bitmain influencing any AI decisions? 18:39 Cloud contract numbers 20:28 Who are the cloud customers? 26:18 Bear market for mining stocks 29:44 Hosting 👉 CleanSpark (CLSK), America’s Bitcoin Miner! Cleanspark develops infrastructure for Bitcoin, an essential tool for financial independence and inclusion. Learn more by visiting https://www.cleanspark.com/! 👉 Digital Shovel, All Things Crypto Mining! Are you a Crypto miner looking to expand your operations leading into this next Bull Market? Digital Shovel is a leading manufacturer of modular mining pods, as well as PDUs & Switchgears. Industry leading prices starting at $69,000/MW for a complete datacenter, including Smart PDUs and switchgear. For more information, visit www.DigitalShovel.com 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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