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EditFor my birthday, please donate by zapping for his nonprofit sats4soup or directly sending via lightning to [email protected]
What about dreams and aspirations? Do y’all invest in dreams and aspirations?
Phew. I was getting worried. Now I’m okay.
JUST IN: Tatum Turn Up says, “Fuck the state” 🙌
Most people picture Bitcoin mining as plugging in machines and watching the hashrate go up. At scale, it looks very different. Behind the scenes it’s warehouses, deployments, repair blitzes, and crisis calls. It’s the side of mining that rarely gets talked about. In the warehouse, it’s loud, fast, and dusty. Forklifts, pallet jacks, compressors, and up to 100 miners screaming on the test bench. Dust flies everywhere from blowing out machines, stirred up by fans. You leave in a different-colored shirt than you came in. And the work never stops moving. Intake, testing, repairs, outbound. A machine that ships today might have been powered on, inspected, moved, and logged three times this week. The toughest challenge? Data integrity. A miner isn’t just “a miner.” It’s a specific unit with a history. If it moves without being logged, it becomes a ghost. At scale, ghosts cost time and money. Keeping everything tight is the name of the game. Adaptability is the core skill. Priorities shift daily. One minute you’re scanning inventory, the next you’re reconfiguring a test bench, and by the afternoon you’re on a brand-new project that didn’t even exist that morning. This is why Compass Mining offers warehousing consultation services built specifically for Bitcoin miners. Most people don’t realize it, but it’s a key piece of how we provide end-to-end solutions from deployment, hosting, repairs, logistics, and anything in between. (If you want to learn more about this, reach out to me directly.) Then there’s the field. You fly in, grab dinner, and the next morning you roll up to site. That first look always sparks the same thought: “Here we go again.” Because no matter what the outline says, you’re stepping into the unknown. And that’s half the thrill. The hours flex with the job. Sometimes it’s close to 8–5, other times it’s an all-nighter. One of my favorite memories: pulling up at 11pm to rewire 8 containers from scratch. We parked the truck in the middle, cranked the music, and worked until 3am. Exhausting and unforgettable. Mining has taken me to some unexpected places, too. For a long time, my “home away from home” was a small Amish town in Iowa. Population 600. While we worked on site, horse and buggies rolled past like clockwork. The future of money humming in steel boxes while the past rolled by on wheels of wood. The rhythm isn’t easy. One week I’m home, cooking my own meals and seeing friends. The next I’m in another state, pushing my body to the limit, running on grit and takeout. But that’s the point—it’s what makes this work real. Some days I feel like Superman lifting gear, other days like a hacker cleaning up data across three screens, other times like a parkour kid climbing containers just to plug in a cable. It’s tough work, and yeah, sometimes it just flat-out sucks. But I wouldn’t trade it. Warehousing is a skill, fieldwork is a gauntlet, and together they’re the backbone of Bitcoin mining. Without them, there is no hashrate.
Proto Rig is legit one of the most exciting things that’s happened in mining imo.
Can we make Quest of Keys shirts..?
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