Chris Alfano

Crazy what can happen in 24 hours...

@willrayvalentin Inject this in my veins!

Jesus Christ it’s so God damn fucking beautiful I can’t fucking stand it!!!!!!

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"They'll sell you the gas... for free." @360EnergyInc’s @chrisallfano explains how gas producers will give bitcoin miners energy for free…. but the rest of the deal is much more complicated 🎧 Catch the latest episode of 'The Blockspace Pod,’ in partnership with @blockspace!

NEW @blockspace pod: Big Oil Wants Dollars, Not BTC w/ @chrisallfano Chris explains how oil & gas producers leverage regional energy price disparity to mine bitcoin ⚡️BTC vs AI ⚡️Off-grid less risky? ⚡️USA vs intl bitcoin mining in oilpatch Brought to you by @CleanSpark_Inc

Just announced - Austin Bitcoin Club Presents: Powering Freedom on Jan 8. Let's start off the new year with this absolute banger of a fireside chat between @willcole and @chrisallfano talking about energy & mining in the great state of Texas. Space is limited so please RSVP.

@AustinJustice Inflation is a helluva drug

Austin’s budget in 2010: $2.75B Austin’s budget in 2024: $5.94B Population growth: +25% Spending growth: +116% Spending per resident: +76% City Hall is spending twice as much to serve only 1.25x the people. Does the city feel twice as well-managed? Does it look like things are improving?

Maybe this what Trump meant when he campaigned on "drill baby drill"

@FracSlap The mall cop of the oilfield

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@MattG_PE Congrats Matt!

@hashwatts 12 team playoff is the gift that keeps on giving

Big tech buying power plants for AI is always where I thought Bitcoin miners would go. AI leap-frogged miners to vertical integration. That, combined with an appetite for higher power prices, is intriguing. Miners won't be far behind with $MARA starting with a wind farm.

@milms3 @McTilio13 Rookie numbers @milms3

@McTilio13 🫡

If you aren’t dollar cost averaging into ₿itcoin what are you doing with your life.? 🤔

@RealAlexJones Bitcoin at $87k and deranged lefties shaving their heads... the world is healing 🙂

Ultimate Compilation 4 of Insane Leftists Women Shaving Their Heads In Protest Of Trumps Huge Election Victory. Reminds Me of The Women In The Charles Manson Cult Watch The Live Stream Now: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🔥 Cox alumni Chris Alfano (BBA '16) & Sean Milmoe (BBA '16) are transforming energy with 360 Mining, using natural gas for bitcoin mining. Congrats to Chris, a D CEO finalist! See how they are innovating energy in CoxToday Online: tinyurl.com/4ah642eu #SMUCox #EnergyTech

@SGBarbour This post helped me learn to coal, thank you!

I learned to coal even more today! Behold 570 Megawatts of refined baseload coal power in the single steam turbine unit behind me! This plant is just amazing, I recommend the tour if you are interested in mechanical / electrical engineering. I came prepared with many questions tailored to a business case for them to colocate a #bitcoin mining baseload behind the meter at the plant. The plant manager confirmed what I suspected from prior research: - this plant deals with significant, unnecessary maintenance costs from thermal cycling caused by intermittent demand, a recent phenomena caused by output being displaced by unreliable renewable generation on the grid - the plant's operating heat rates / efficiency is significantly diminished by the output throttling (caused by intermittent competing generation, such as wind power) - the plant is receiving record high value for beneficial CCPs (coal combustion products) they sell to industry, for example fly ash used in cement. This is because the American market has much fewer sources of CCP with America shutting down so much coal power. Now, instead of using CCPs which are a cheap waste product, all across America infrastructure projects are having to use alternatives to CCPs such as those spurced from imports from Asian coal power CCPs, or from substitutes like raw earth mined and used for backfill in road building projects (instead of bottom ash, for example). This is a major negative externality born by American consumers that the carbon accountants completely ignore! - EPA continues to place ever increasing nonsensical, irrational rule changes to artificially drive up capital / operating costs of coal power plants in an effort to remove all coal power in America. The only rationale here is "carbon bad", which has no scientific basis. All other factors worth considering are ignored. - carbon capture at a plant like this, which is mandated by 2032 by the EPA / Feds, would render the plant completely uneconomic. They'd have to consume over 40% of the output just to recapture CO2 (a product not only necessary to the environment, but which is currently at all-time lows - the forests are starving!). If China were to use the same carbon capture standard, coal power would die in China and America would have no source for solar panels (cherry picked that one, without Chinese coal power we'd be screwed in so many other ways as well). - in terms of *real* emissions (you know, actual pollutants) this plant is one of the lowest emitting NOx, SOx, mercury etc coal plants in the world due to excellent emissions control tech they've had since day 1 in the '80s. - Despite spending hundreds of millions upgrading emissions controls in the last decade, EPA continues to change goal posts trying to destroy the plant and industry at large. The EPA has made them waste hundreds of millions on tech that simply does not matter. One example - EPA forced them to completely redo the ash holding pond liners despite them using industry leading tech at the time. They had zero leaks on 40 years... Anyways... What can a Bitcoin mine do for this plant? A large co-located mine would at the plant would: 1) keep a reliable, minimum baseload so they could stop the thermal cycling of the plant causing premature equipment failures 2) monetize the underutilized capacity, generating hundreds direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs in Wyoming and nearby 3) reduce operating costs / MWh, driving more profits that would reduce rates to co-op members (everyone saves money on power) 4) increase the thermal efficiency of the plant and therefore reduce the coal consumed per MWh. This means wasting far less of a valuable, limited resource and emitting less CO2 for the same output. #learntocoal #bitcoin

@SGBarbour World Liberty Financial Coin, obviously

What is more bullish than freeing Ross Ulbricht? #bitcoin #FreeRoss

@petromundo1 This kid is going places

I let my six-year-old choose any shades he wanted for the Frio River, he showed up with these. I am now going to change his name to Chad and looking to get him a drilling hand job, I believe this will suffice as a resume.

I didn’t think this would need to be said so soon but: Think long and hard about the repercussions of selling your #bitcoin to the US government. It will be easy to get dollars. I hear they’re making more of them. They won’t sell the bitcoin back to you.