A week ago I was on South Beach.. What even is this place?
China banned cryptocurrency.. Alibaba, what was once a fairly safe place to get miners
at something of a reasonable price (what world am I living in?) banned the sale of crypto
mining equipment.
Oddly, they still allow companies to list miners, though - but the conversation quickly
devolves into them asking you for a WhatsApp number where they will often require you to
pay them in Tether or Ether with literally no recourse if they were to just turn around
and change their number after you send off 10 to 14 thousand dollars.
This makes ordering new equipment very scary. Of course, some of those manufacturers WILL
send you the equipment you order. A guy could probably say that most of them will. But there
is no question that people are being scammed now that Trade Assurance is no longer an option.
What if someone else would take on that risk for you? Someone - well, someone you could
sue I guess if they tried to screw you over. A company with a registered business and insurance
and an address in the United States!
I went in search of just that - and in the spirit of going all the way (airborne) - I
didnt just buy some mining equipment and wait to see if it showed up or not. I asked if
the boys and I could drive up and meet them in person. They agreed; we got in my truck
and headed north - way north..
The intro to this video, as unusual a thing to do as it was, was the actual hand off of
my newest S19j Pro’s - that was moment I took possession, in a snow covered field in
some industrial area of Minneapolis; with a little art direction.
Anyway, meet Blake and Chris from Musk Miners! I have opened up a discord channel, (link
in the description) and within it, there is a section called Mining Hardware, where these
two are chained to a computer desk in a damp basement with a single bare lightbulb hanging
down and one of those metal pull chains that turns it on - to answer your questions and
sell you mining machines. Just kidding, they may take a bit to get back to you if like
theyre in the bath, or out to dinner or whatever else people do. But they will talk about crypto
and help you get what you need.
Now yes, there will be a markup when you buy from them, or from anyone in the united states.
But NOTHING like the prices you see on eBay or Amazon at the moment. The prices of bitcoin
miners change daily, so I cant really speculate on the actual price - but for ME its worth
it to pay a small percentage more than Chinas prices to not have to deal with the stress
of sending money overseas to a person with an obviously made up name, who really could
just take your money with basically no recourse. Instead, Musk Miners has to take on that risk.
And the machines that you order will be guaranteed.
The fun doesnt stop there, either! These new crypto pioneers are opening a hosting facility
in Texas soon, and one in North Dakota, too!! And you better believe Im flying down there
as soon as its ready to take a look, and pass on, in brilliant 4k footage, the conditions
and feeling of the place. Chris and Blake expect it to be online and accepting new clients
by February. By all means, jump into my fancy new Discord server if you want to get in on
that action, I think I will.
They’ve done a really clever thing where they got a natural gas power plant to agree
to let them use the power generated from flaring and overflow (im almost certainly going to
describe this incorrectly but you get the gist). If you’ve ever driven near a gas
plant, you may have seen a tall pipe sticking out of the ground with a big flame coming
out of it. This has something to do with releasing pressures or I dont know what, but evidently
it can be, instead of burned, run through a generator to
make electricity.
Which means, sort of, in a round about way, if you think about it, that they have found
a way to turn power generated from natural gas into ‘green’ energy, since that same
gas would otherwise just be literally burned off into the air.
Nevertheless, maybe thats important to you, maybe it isnt, but the second effect that
has on the electricity is that they can host your miners cheaper than you can run them
at home EVEN AFTER TAKING THEIR CUT. Its really a circumstance where everyone is
a winner; you dont have to have loud, hot noisy machines running in your shed or garage
- you dont have to maintain them, they will replace fans, do resets, change filters, whatever
else is involved in keeping these machines humming along, and they will do that all while
charging you less money than if they didnt do it for you. Like it costs less to host
with them than to host on your own. AND, since theyre AT the power plant - the likelihood
of a power outage, and subsequent down time for your miners is much smaller than basically
anywhere else.
Initially I worried about Texas because of what happened last year with their power outages,
but evidently this source of power is off grid, not connected to whatever else happens
down there (wild west and all that).
Contact Chris or Blake or Chris and Blake to talk about getting some miners, or to talk
about hosting your miners at their facility. Please please tell them you heard of them
from Nicholas over at the Space Warehouse.. Full disclosure, I will get a tiny slice of
that pie for having sent you there, but that wont cost you anything extra, and itll only
lead to bigger and better experiments and videos from this channel.
Im putting their contact info in the description of this video, next to where you can find
my discord, and of course you can also just go to MuskMiners.com to look it over.
They’re newish - so you’ll be able to find them on instagram but they dont have
a ton of followers over there, by all means get on there also and say hi.
Now I have to drive back down and get these new S19s on the rack in the hurricane room..
Then Sarah and I are off on a Christmas Cruise! Meanwhile, Im up here, standing on a lake.
This is suppose to be water, Im standing on water. Who lives like this? Where’s my dog?
Im leaving.