Confessions of a Global Bitcoin Miner

May 9, 2025
Season 1
90 min

Description

🎙️ The CoinRock Show – Bitcoin Mining, Geopolitics & the Global Energy Chessboard
🎧 Dive into a sharp, behind-the-scenes look at the real forces shaping Bitcoin mining—energy markets, regulatory pressure, and shifting global alliances

In this episode, Matthias is joined by Denis Rusinovich (@DenisRusinovich), Partner at Cryptocurrency Mining Group and one of the most seasoned voices in the mining world. From Kazakhstan to Russia, they dissect how Bitcoin mining has become deeply entangled with energy politics, compliance risks, and national strategy.

💥 Key Themes Covered:
🔹 Why Bitcoin mining is now a matter of state policy
🔹 The impact of sanctions, power subsidies, and ESG narratives
🔹 How Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Middle East are shaping mining’s next wave
🔹 The shift from private operators to nation-aligned strategies

🚨 Special Guest Segment: Denis Rusinovich
With experience across regulatory, technical, and capital layers of the mining industry, Denis breaks it down like few others can. He shares:
✔️ What’s really happening inside Kazakh and Russian mining markets
✔️ How energy pricing and political favor drive profitability
✔️ Why miners are pivoting toward high-efficiency, low-visibility ops
✔️ What infrastructure investors should know before deploying
✔️ How global regulatory friction is splitting the mining map in two

⚡ Energy, Infrastructure & State Control
📉 How energy shortages and tariffs are shaping mining strategy
🛢️ The oil & gas connection to off-grid mining operations
📊 Hashrate migration, hardware capex, and jurisdictional risk
🇨🇳 China’s ghost in the machine: post-ban ripple effects still playing out

🧠 Alpha for Miners, Builders & Geopolitical Thinkers
Matthias and Denis unpack:
• What it takes to survive and scale in hostile environments
• The real ESG debate—beyond headlines and headlines
• Why mining infra is now inseparable from sovereign interests
• How to read the geopolitical tea leaves for Bitcoin’s future

🚀 If you’re trying to understand mining beyond the basics, this is your intel drop.
Energy markets. State pressure. Mining’s next battleground.

🔗 Explore the topics further:
Denis Rusinovich: @DenisRusinovich
CoinRock Media: coinrockmedia.com
CoinRock: @CoinRockMedia | @CoinRockCap
Join the Telegram Alpha Group: http://t.me/CoinRockAlpha

🎧 Tap in now. Bitcoin mining is no longer neutral — it’s geopolitical.

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Authors

Matthias Mazur, Founder

Matthias Mazur is a serial Web2 and Web3 entrepreneur, investor and author with 17 years of experience in building, acquiring, growing and selling digital businesses.

He has been involved in digital marketing since the early 2000s, and has built over a dozen internet-based businesses which have collectively generated over $200 million in revenue in the publishing, e-commerce, and software markets since retiring from professional tennis in 2007.

He is retired financially, and his portfolio business generates $30 million/year with over 150 employees and staff across all companies.

He bought Bitcoin in May 2017, been through 2 bear markets, has been a private investor in crypto and blockchain projects for years and founded CoinRock to solve inefficiencies in the crypto and Web3 industry by giving the public access to projects usually only reserved to whitelisted investors and private groups.  

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