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This episode’s guest is Ryan Leachman, the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of JAI Energy.

Ryan was born and raised in the Canadian oil fields and started his career as a petroleum engineer. 

After a well that his company drilled didn’t have access to a pipeline Ryan got his first experience with Bitcoin mining as a way to mitigate flared gas at the well site. 

After seeing Bitcoin mining first hand, Ryan and his partner saw an opportunity to go into Bitcoin mining full time with their start-up JAI Energy

This episode’s filled with discussions about what it’s like going from an oil & gas background and getting into Bitcoin mining. We talk about the challenges of mining the oil field and how mining using flared gas is a great use case but may face hurdles being a viable way to scale mining operations. Lastly, we talk about what it has been like bootstrapping a new mining venture and going full send into oilfield Bitcoin mining. 

Hope you enjoy the show!

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We went live for Talk.Energy Insights on September 17th, 2021 with guest Max Germin. 

Max is the CFO of Dara Energy and his company is active in the E&P acquisition space. 

This episode we cover: 
-Upstream oil & gas deal market and current trends
-Challenges facing oil and gas dealmakers
-Potential for a looming energy crisis from lack of investment?

Hope you enjoy the show! 

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This episode's guest Saxby Stradinger. Saxby is the founder of Blackffin Exploration, and an old friend of mine from back to the very early days of my career.

Saxby was one of the first friends I made in the energy industry out of college and we both worked in Chesapeake Energy Marketing across with offices across the hall from each other. 

When Saxby is not busy training for triathlons he is working on oil & gas and real estate deals. 

This episode is filled with discussions about the early days of our career and our time working with Chesapeake. 

We talk about how Saxby quit his job and traveled the world during his 20s, and he tells
Some of the best stories from that trip.

And lastly we talk about Saxby’s career as an independent oil man and a real estate developer

Hope you enjoy the show!

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We were live on Friday 9/10/21 for Talk.Energy Insights! 

This episode we talk about our personal experience of being a founder.  

Hope you enjoy the show!

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This episode’s guest is Daniel Frumkin, the head of research and content for Braiins / Slushpool. 

Slushpool is one of the oldest Bitcoin mining pools still in existence and has been a pioneer in the space since the early days of Bitcoin. 

Daniel started out his career researching and writing content about Bitcoin and eventually landed with Braiins back in 2019. Working for one the O.G. Bitcoin mining pools Daniel has been able to learn the intricacies of Bitcoin mining from some of the sharpest minds in the business. 

This episode is a technical discussion about Bitcoin mining, we talk about the history of the mining pools and how things are evolving in that industry. 

We discuss the different types of mining hardware and how firmware will play an increasing role in the profitability and efficiency of mining operations. 

Lastly we discuss the most important operating metrics that miners should pay attention to, and the critical issues to consider when planning a Bitcoin mining venture. 

Hope you enjoy the show. 

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We were live for this week's episode of Talk.Energy Insights with special guest Chef Dee Lavigne to hear her story of being a New Orleans Entrepreneur and the challenges faced during COVID and Hurricane Ida.

We also talk about ways that people can help those who have been impacted.

Hope you enjoy the show!

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This episode's guest is Ethan House, the Vice President of Business Development for EnergyNet. 

Ethan has a passion for working in oil & gas and is an outspoken advocate for the the industry. He also has the itch to start making content, and has even started recording episodes for his own podcast.  

This episode is filled with discussions about the narrative battle we face working in oil and gas. We talk about the state of the industry and the challenges we are dealing with. Lastly, we talk about the upstream deal space and what trends Ethan sees on the M&A front. 

Hope you enjoy the show. 

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We are live for Talk.Energy Insights this Friday August 27th, 2021.

-Market Update
-Natural Gas Ripping
-BitBlockBoom
-NAPE Recap
-Afghanistan

Hope you enjoy the show!

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This episode's guest is Chuck Yates, the man, the myth, the unemployed legend. Chuck is a recovering private equity bro, and host a wildly popular energy podcast called Chuck Yates Needs a Job. 

We filmed this last week at NAPE and decided we would do a cross over post to both of our podcasts.

This episode's filled with discussion about the current state of oil and gas private equity, or lack there of (as Chuck would say). 

Hope you enjoy the show! 

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This episode is an impromptu bonus episode of the Talk.Energy Podcast that I live streamed with Marty Bent late night at the NAPE conference in Houston Texas. 

After a long day of walking the conference floor and attending multiple happy hours we decided to do a stream of consciousness live podcast. We covered a wide variety of topics including, energy, bitcoin mining, the Afghanistan situation, the ESG movement, and a bunch of other topics. 

Hope you enjoy the show! 

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