If it hashes, heats up, or plugs into a grid — I've run it.
Bitcoin class of 2010, 10th-generation Texan. Fifteen years where energy markets meet large-scale compute — mining, AI datacenters, flexible load, and hardware down to the silicon. Deployed 3 GW across 21 countries. Now CRO at OBM, Senior Technical Advisor to the DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing, and GP of Alloyed Strategies.
Mining
Fleet & site architecture
Site design, cooling, firmware and fleet control — from first megawatt to first exahash.
Energy
Flexible load & grid strategy
Power procurement, curtailment economics and grid participation — turning big loads into assets that earn.
Expert witness
Testimony & disputes
Expert witness work in mining, hardware and energy cases — fifteen years of operating record behind the opinion.
Markets
Hard-market entry
Standing up operations where the map runs out — 21 countries' worth of permits, power deals and partners.
Build
From 20MW in China to Texas at scale
A 20-megawatt mine in China felt gigantic in 2015. Since then: industrial sites across four continents, including Rhodium's liquid-cooled Texas builds — flexible loads that ride the grid instead of fighting it, the kind that helped ERCOT dodge a blackout in 2023.
Invent
Running a million machines as one
Eight granted U.S. patents on fleet-level control of mining hardware — telemetry, power and security, from the chip to the site. The full list is below.
Design
Down to the silicon
Hardware designer by background — five silicon designs as part of much bigger teams, and a design hand in many more hardware projects. Pictured: the SFARDS SF3301, a dual-algorithm chip that mined bitcoin and litecoin, circa 2015.
Detour
The esports years
Built and ran Mockit Esports — teams on the Rocket League Championship Series stage, events and sponsorships. Exited.
Pioneer
Mining before it was an industry
One of the first to systematize bitcoin mining — CPU rigs in 2010, then farms, pools and hardware sourcing across Asia. Still at it for the little guy through PlebSource, hardware for home miners.
'10
Mining bitcoin since
3GW
Infrastructure built
21
Countries
8
U.S. patents
4
Exits
Equity positions, my own fund, and the odd advisory seat.
Equity
Gridless Compute
Bitcoin mining on stranded hydro, geothermal and solar — electrifying rural Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.
Partner
JAM Datacenters
Bitcoin mining and datacenters out of Sugar Land, Texas.
Equity
Start9 Labs
Sovereign computing — StartOS and personal servers.
Equity
Trojan Mining
Bitcoin mining.
GP & Founder
Alloyed Strategies
My own fund — general partner and founder.
Founder
PlebSource
Bitaxe-class hardware for home miners — decentralizing hashrate one desk at a time.
Advisor
Ocean.xyz
Non-custodial, decentralized mining pool.
Advisor
Titan.io
Bitcoin mining pool.
Advisor
Lygos
Non-custodial Bitcoin credit — borrow without selling or wrapping.
Exited
Purse.io
Spend bitcoin on Amazon — early BTC commerce.
Exited
Thesis
Crypto venture studio.
Exited
Big Baller Brand
The Ball family's shoe and apparel brand — BBB.
Exited
Fold
Bitcoin rewards app — sats back on everyday spending.
Operator
Dream Lab
Venture studio in Nanchang, China.
Before now: Head of Mining at Rhodium Enterprises, CEO of Mockit Esports, Rogue Wave Industries, and Dream Lab — a venture studio in Nanchang, China — four exits along the way. This site is about the work; the paper version is one click away.