THE MINING POD: Auradine Bitcoin ASIC Performance With Brad Cuddy

Auradine splashed across headlines earlier this year with new units. But how do they hold up in the field? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to learn more. There’s a ton of new units on the market, including new players like Auradine. But how do these units actually hold up when deployed to the field and under harsh environments? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to walk us through his experience working with the units. We also discuss alternative units like Bitmain and MicroBT, dry cooling, hydro vs. immersion and various other topics relating to technical Bitcoin mining. Lastly, we finish with a conversation on the Texas Bitcoin mining landscape including 👉 Get tickets to OP_NEXT by visiting the website! And use discount code OCTOBER to get 25% off at check out! Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:01 Brad's background 05:53 Types of ASIC cooling 09:25 Bitmain vs MicroBT 12:20 Dry cooling 16:34 Hydro vs immersion 21:38 Immersion form factor challenges 22:26 MicroBT immersion deployment 24:21 Cost difference 25:42 Cooling fluid & thermodynamics 28:24 Fluid longevity 29:14 Auradine 32:32 Firmware & chip uptime 34:47 Auradine conclusion 35:35 What cooling is best? 37:14 Extreme temps 39:23 Curtailing with hydro units 42:21 New Bitmain unit 45:34 Bitmain changing PDUs 48:13 Curtailing (4CP) 49:15 Curtailing (PPA) 51:16 Ancillary grid services 52:43 4CP operations 55:10 Renewable & Texas grid 58:56 Future of solar 1:03:52 Miners, data centers & interconnections 1:06:22 Texas' isolated grid Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 👉Enjoying the show? Check out our newsletter at miningpod.blockspace.media! 👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show! Follow our hosts on Twitter: @wsfoxley, @cbspears, @AsILayHodling, @MatthewKimmell - Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! - "The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey Inc. with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.