Episode notes
The Austin Bitcoin Club at the Bitcoin Commons on June 2nd, 2022. We will have Michael Atwood founder of Oshi hosting the Pleb Symposium with special guests Chad Harris, Mitch Klee, Nick.
This month we focused on Bitcoin Mining + Community.
⚡Nick kicked us off with an intro to pleb mining. He showed us how to set up a bitcoin miner (Antminer s9) using SlushPool and Braiins OS open-source mining firmware from start to finish!
Donate to open source developers for a chance to win the bitcoin miner!
We raffled off the Bitcoin s9 miner, compliments of Kaboomracks, during the evening as well. Raffle tickets were paid for with bitcoin!
10,000 satoshis (~$3) for 1 ticket.
35,000 satoshis (~$10) for 5 tickets.
All raffle proceeds were immediately donated to OpenSats, a 501(c)(3) public charity which aims to fund Bitcoin-related free and open source projects and associated education and research initiatives.
⚡⛏️ Next up, we had a Bitcoin Mining + Community Panel with both plebs and experts in the field.
-Chad Harris, AKA GigaChad, CEO of Whinstone US, the largest bitcoin mining operation in North America.
-Mitch Klee, Mining Analyst at Compass Mining
-Nick, software engineer at Galoy and humble pleb miner.
-Parker Lewis of Unchained Capital
Thank you to Unchained for taking care of us Plebs during the event.
This month we focused on Bitcoin Mining + Community.
⚡Nick kicked us off with an intro to pleb mining. He showed us how to set up a bitcoin miner (Antminer s9) using SlushPool and Braiins OS open-source mining firmware from start to finish!
Donate to open source developers for a chance to win the bitcoin miner!
We raffled off the Bitcoin s9 miner, compliments of Kaboomracks, during the evening as well. Raffle tickets were paid for with bitcoin!
10,000 satoshis (~$3) for 1 ticket.
35,000 satoshis (~$10) for 5 tickets.
All raffle proceeds were immediately donated to OpenSats, a 501(c)(3) public charity which aims to fund Bitcoin-related free and open source projects and associated education and research initiatives.
⚡⛏️ Next up, we had a Bitcoin Mining + Community Panel with both plebs and experts in the field.
-Chad Harris, AKA GigaChad, CEO of Whinstone US, the largest bitcoin mining operation in North America.
-Mitch Klee, Mining Analyst at Compass Mining
-Nick, software engineer at Galoy and humble pleb miner.
-Parker Lewis of Unchained Capital
Thank you to Unchained for taking care of us Plebs during the event.
