We sit down with James McGinniss, CEO and Cofounder of David Energy to talk about Bitcoin's role in the energy transition and how Bitcoin mining is a useful source of flexible load for increasingly renewable grids. In this episode: 

• The fundamental change happening in the US grid today
• What distributed energy resources are and why they are important
• Why DERs are catching on in California
• Why bitcoin allows load to move to supply
• Why better metering improves the prospects for demand response
• How demand response works nationwide
• Why there's a fundamental tradeoff between uptime and power prices
• Why Bitcoin is the best demand response resource
• The prospects for other location agnostic load resources
• Do better batteries obsolete Bitcoin mining as a grid balancer?
• How David Energy is working with Bitcoin miners
• Why Bitcoin miners should trade mining uptime for cheaper power
• Are grid operators designing programs for bitcoin miners?
• Why there's a longer tail of energy assets that miners should take advantage of

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