Power Markets, Pirates, and Energy Backed Money with Andrew Myers (Co-founder, Satoshi Energy)
Andrew and I sit down for a fun conversation while overlooking the San Francisco Bay. There are a few sound/wind issues with my mic (mostly towards the end), but hopefully nothing too disruptive.
We focus a lot on energy, but touch on a number of interesting ideas from the edge, including:
* The declining cost of solar and batteries
* The commodification of solar and Bitcoin miners
* The interconnection process in ERCOT
* Opening new markets as the cost of solar continues to decline
* Bitcoin Mining vs. AI compute markets (price and uptime are two major factors)
* Reforming legacy power markets vs building new ones with microgrids (micromarkets enable microgrids)
* What a power market does - 1) match supply and demand to create price at each node and 2) serves as clearing house
* Nostr as the communication protocol for decentralized energy markets?
* Pirates once ruled the world because they were free to experience different modes of life. Do they still?
* Andrew’s vagabond/pirate ethos and lifestyle experiments
* Andrew’s other business idea: a tech enabled private military as an insurance company
* How does humanity evolve into the hivemind?
* Patience as the ultimate virtue
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