Ep 3: Chase Blackmon on Immersion Cooling as an Alternative to Air-Cooled Mines

Ep 3: Chase Blackmon on Immersion Cooling as an Alternative to Air-Cooled Mines

Author: Christian Keroles December 10, 2019 Duration: 1:03:30
Welcome to What’s Halvening!
 
Hosted by Cassie Clifton and produced by Bitcoin Magazine, the show chronicles the latest and greatest developments taking shape across the complex and ever-changing cryptocurrency mining industry through interviews with mining experts, CEOs, and general enthusiasts.
 
In this episode of What’s Halvening, Cassie interviews Chase Blackmon, the co-founder and CTO of Immersion Systems. The self-proclaimed “jack of all trades, master of none” developed an immersion cooling system for his mining facility to combat the hot, humid Texas summers. Some of the highlights of the discussion include:
  • Advantages of immersion-cooled hardware over air-cooled
  • Heat transfer concepts that give immersion cooling its advantages
  • Finding a liquid with the right heat transfer properties 
  • The role of immersion cooling technology in mining decentralization 
  • The S15 Exploit 
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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 7

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