🔗 Bush Mining:
Website: https://bushmining.com
In this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse introduces Bush Mining, his new venture with partner Conrad, and walks through the live pilot project: a hydro-powered farm in South Africa's Eastern Cape that turns stranded, wasted power into Bitcoin mining revenue.
Jesse breaks down the flexible-compute model that makes it work: a site survey identifies surplus power, metering and load controllers measure what's truly available, and ASIC miners soak up only the stranded energy that would otherwise be dumped as heat. Local needs always come first, the load follows the site, and the system can switch off from full load to near-zero in under 0.4 seconds the moment power is needed elsewhere. The conversation then opens up into the bigger picture: why so much renewable generation goes to waste, and how flexible Bitcoin mining can make otherwise unviable energy projects pencil out.
Whether you operate a farm with excess solar, sit on stranded hydro, or want to build an energy asset that nobody could justify before, this one shows how surplus power becomes income, fully scalable from a single machine to half a megawatt in a shipping container.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro: introducing Bush Mining
0:32 The idea: turning wasted power into revenue
0:48 Flexible compute, wherever surplus exists
1:05 The Eastern Cape pilot goes live
1:24 How it works: surplus first, local needs always come first
2:28 Switching off in under 0.4 seconds
3:13 Power source, metering & flexible compute
3:37 Remote operations & load following the site
4:00 The pilot site
4:36 Islanded grid: power that can't be sold
5:18 From dump load to productive mining
5:27 Scalability: one machine to a megawatt
5:59 The 40-year-old hydro dam up close
6:30 Existing dump load vs Bush Mining
7:16 Customer portal preview & next steps
7:24 Who should reach out
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