I tried this on Twitter before and I'm pretty sure the algorithm suppressed it and also that reputation means more here than on the bird app, so here it goes:

I am a Bitcoin miner since 2017 starting small and always growing slowly as opportunities arose. In early 2020 right before the lockdowns I co-founded a company with two other people experienced at raising capital because I wanted to mine at larger scale and of course get more Bitcoin. We spent over a year raising money on Zoom calls in an environment where everyone was freaking out about committing capital.

What I learned through this process is that the venture capital world is mostly full of awful people who only think in dollars and can't wait to tell you how to compromise your vision and bend the knee to what the hot idea of the moment is. In our case, it was eTheReUm mining because the risk was considered lower because of all of those cheap GPU's and a large supplier willing to discount them even more for a part of the deal.

Long story short, I was out voted by my fiat partners and the VC's and decided to leave the company. I ended up working on some gas flare mining in Wyoming and then an on grid project in Missouri where we helped some Chinese miners escape. While much smaller, these projects were a lot more fun.

So, with some context and history out of the way, here is the pitch. I have a couple of sites in Missouri and Texas with a lot of available power. Everything I personally have is in Bitcoin and one of these sites. I would like to build them and am open to hosting, however I want to do this with real Bitcoiners who share my beliefs about how important it is and want to have fun and earn some corn along the way. The sites require transformers and other electrical infrastructure which is not cheap. I don't have a plan beyond having the energy and the experience to build and run it and I'm genuinely curious how many of you would participate in something like this if given the chance? I'm happy to have this conversation publicly and also in DM's if you need to send something privately.

If all of this sounds sketchy or too shitcoiner, I would like that feedback as well. I see Foundry's hashrate going through the roof and I have no idea how smaller miners committed to Bitcoin can help to protect the network without joining forces.