Playable Characters Show with Brandon Gentile
May 28, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min · 13 segments
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Mike HobartGuest
Brandon GentileHost
Oh, I think it's the cool thing about this con- this part of the conversation is that I actually was talking with Todd, uh, when I first joined Great American Mining about where the future for Bitcoin mining is going to go.

Um, and we're seeing it play out right now in that what we're seeing is that Bitcoin miners are like yours, like you said, they're, they are the, the pathfinders for cheap energy.

They come in, they find the cheap energy, they figure out how to get access to it cheaply and reliably.

They build out the infrastructure for it, and then that's essentially the, the synergy that they're going to be h- having and we are seeing with, uh, the data center world, right? And they're technically both data centers, different focuses.

They're finding, um, ways to play with the, uh, financial derivatives to be able to protect their operations and their bottom line.

And we're also seeing how they are proving, um, proving the use cases for using, uh, Bitcoin mining operations for smoothing out demand curve for power, right? Like ERCOT is like the pinnacle of that because they make their information public around the demand curves throughout the day and what source is providing what when.


They don't wanna have to sell Bitcoin because that's bad PR for the community and everything.

Well, we wanna make sure that you're managing your financials properly and not like a Bitcoin maxi," right? Um-Bitcoin maximalists, uh, they like to take pride in never selling and everything, but like, kinda like, like I alluded to earlier, you, you kinda wanna sell every once in a while if you're, if you're a normal-

Oh, I think it's the cool thing about this con- this part of the conversation is that I actually was talking with Todd, uh, when I first joined Great American Mining about where the future for Bitcoin mining is going to go.

Um, and we're seeing it play out right now in that what we're seeing is that Bitcoin miners are like yours, like you said, they're, they are the, the pathfinders for cheap energy.

They come in, they find the cheap energy, they figure out how to get access to it cheaply and reliably.

They build out the infrastructure for it, and then that's essentially the, the synergy that they're going to be h- having and we are seeing with, uh, the data center world, right? And they're technically both data centers, different focuses.

They're finding, um, ways to play with the, uh, financial derivatives to be able to protect their operations and their bottom line.

And we're also seeing how they are proving, um, proving the use cases for using, uh, Bitcoin mining operations for smoothing out demand curve for power, right? Like ERCOT is like the pinnacle of that because they make their information public around the demand curves throughout the day and what source is providing what when.


They don't wanna have to sell Bitcoin because that's bad PR for the community and everything.

Well, we wanna make sure that you're managing your financials properly and not like a Bitcoin maxi," right? Um-Bitcoin maximalists, uh, they like to take pride in never selling and everything, but like, kinda like, like I alluded to earlier, you, you kinda wanna sell every once in a while if you're, if you're a normal-
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