Future of Bitcoin Mining 2024 with Shannon Squires, Chief Mining Officer at Compass Mining.

Shannon Squires, Chief Mining Officer at Compass Mining, shares insights on the Bitcoin mining market post-halving. Discussions include mining farm costs, ASIC repair markets, and predictions for summer 2024. Shannon also shares his journey in the industry and Compass Mining's current focus.

Chapter Markers:

00:00 Start

03:02 Shannon intro

06:45 Greenfield vs rack ready sites

08:23 US mining vs global

10:05 Self-taught

11:04 Compass mining move

12:30 Compass business update

14:58 Why has hosting survived?

17:13 The Accelerated program

18:04 How does Accelerated work?

20:18 Facility sizes

22:04 10 megawatts or bust

25:14 Cost per megawatt?

25:42 Transformers are abundant now, right? Right?

27:30 Halving bankruptcies?

28:50 S19 rig bear market

30:38 ASIC sales

32:24 Repair market

35:31 Why are manufacturers training technicians

36:56 Predictions

38:33 $400k per megawatt

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