GAMcast: A BTC & O&G Podcast: Recent Episodes

Marty Bent

A podcast hosted by Great American Mining, a bitcoin mining company, exploring the budding symbiotic relationship between the oil & gas and bitcoin mining industries.

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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Wright, Founder and CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services, to discuss:

  • Energy poverty

  • Lack of education around energy extraction and delivery

  • Energy density

  • Does fracking pollute water?

  • Is Chris anti "renewables"? 

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms to have a discussion about the Bitcoin Mining Council and the ESG movement.

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Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Steven Koonin, author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, to discuss:

  • Looking into the climate data

  • What it tells us

  • How severe is climate change?

  • Why don't people actually look at the data?

  • Why has the narrative been pushed to the extreme?

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and author of Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, to discuss:

  • Interglacial periods

  • Is the Earth warming?

  • If so, is it bad?

  • Oceans rising

  • Extinction events and their causes

  • The Elitism of Climate Emergency energy policy

  • Sensible environmentalism

  • much more

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Pick up Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom

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Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., to discuss:

  • The unspoken tradeoffs of green energy

  • The Colonial Pipeline situation

  • Ransomeware

  • The ESG movement

  • Is bitcoin a commodity?

  • Saudi Inc.

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Bryce; author, documentarian, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, to discuss:

  • The Indian Point power plant shutdown

  • Energy mix

  • Subsidies leading to capital misallocation

  • Bitcoin's value prop

  • The externalities that come with wind turbines

  • Land use and green energy

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with Meredith Angwin, author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, to discuss:

  • The fragility of grids

  • Misconceptions around electric grids

  • Energy mix

  • What's happening in Texas and California?

  • Why nuclear is important

  • How data is manipulated to push special interests

  • How we can fix our grids

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This week Marty is joined by Wes Sellner as part of their O&G 101 series to discuss:

  • Vertical v. Horizontal drilling

  • Decline curves

  • Choking wells

  • Risks with drilling wells

  • When vertical wells make sense

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jason Spiess, founder of the Crude Life, to discuss:

  • Bitcoin basics

  • Bitcoin's brand

  • Catholic guilt

  • The rich execs throwing the working class in O&G under the bus

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, to discuss:

  • Green energy jobs v. oil jobs

  • Subsidies driving energy prices higher

  • Using fraud as a heuristic to question the anti-energy movement

  • Developing our environment to protect from climate

  • "Climate catastrophe"

  • Why not nuclear?

  • Moralizing energy conversion

  • Bitcoin and energy

  • much more

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This week Marty sits down with Wes Sellner, field operations expert, to discuss:

  • Wes' experience

  • Engaging with GAM for flare mitigation

  • How to separate liquids from rich gas

  • Different types of flares

  • Oil & Gas jobs are good jobs

  • America produces a very clean barrel of oil

  • Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater

  • much more 

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Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss:

  • OPEC dynamics

  • The politics of oil and gas

  • The history of the shale industry

  • Common sense

  • Bitcoin as a settlement currency for oil trade

  • much more

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Join Marty as he sits down with David Ramsden-Wood, Host of the Hot Take of the Day podcast, to discuss the tradeoffs made in 2020, how to have adult conversations about energy production, how Bitcoin scales in layers, and why David believes we'll be producing less oil on American soil in the years to come. 

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Marty sits down with Max Gagliardi, co-founder of Ancova Energy and host of the Talk.Energy podcast, to discuss:

  • Max's experience adding value to minerals for producers

  • Why he thinks Bitcoin is a massive disruptor for the industry

  • How does this solution scale?

  • How distributed should it be?

  • Turning the narrative tide around the O&G industry

  • Adult conversations around climate change

  • much more

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Marty and Austin Storms, Director of Product Engineering at Great American Mining, sit down to discuss:

  • Energy conversion

  • Fossil fuels

  • Deploying bitcoin mining containers in the Bakken

  • Mining as a way to stronger revenue streams

  • Hodling v. selling mined btc

  • Adult conversations around energy source mix

  • On grid v. off grid bitcoin mining

  • Scaling operations

  • much more

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Join Marty Bent and Tom Masiero from Great American Mining as they discuss:

  • How GAM came to be

  • How we stumbled into the oil & gas fields

  • How Bitcoin and the oil and gas industry can make each other more resilient

  • much more