Fred Thiel emphasizes that U.S.-based Bitcoin mining is essential for national security, energy flexibility, and accelerating infrastructure deployment for AI and HPC industries.
What Should Lawmakers Understand About Bitcoin's Role in Safeguarding U.S. National Security?
The important thing about Bitcoin mining when it comes to safeguarding national security is that a sufficient enough amount of hash rate, which is the job that Bitcoin miners do, should be located in the U.S. so that foreign governments can't exert influence on bitcoin and allows the U.S. to safeguard its bitcoin investments.
How Should the U.S. Government Set the Tone for Global Bitcoin Regulation & Adoption?
The U.S. is doing a great job today in creating very straightforward legislation and regulation around stable coins and the different types of crypto assets. Bitcoin long ago was determined to be a commodity; it's not centrally controlled and it's independent. The rest of the world needs to understand that bitcoin legislation and regulation needs to be more open and accepting, as it is in the U.S.
How Should U.S. Energy Policy Evolve to Accommodate the Growing Demand from High-Density Data Infrastructure like AI/HPC?
The interesting thing with the U.S. infrastructure is that according to a report that Duke University did recently, there's more than enough energy to support the AI and HPC industry and their needs for coming years if they were a flexible load. A flexible load simply means that they can turn on and off their compute, which is something they unfortunately can't do. But when you marry that with Bitcoin mining, which is a flexible load, you get the best of both worlds. And that's why we think it's very important that as we formulate regulation around energy policy, we incentivize AI/HPC companies to work together with Bitcoin mining companies to create balanced, flexible base load demand.
As Policymakers Plan for Al Energy Needs, What Makes Bitcoin Mining Such a Compelling Solution for Scaling?
The advantage with Bitcoin mining is that typically it can be deployed very quickly. We built a 240-megawatt set of data centers in UAE in just under 13 months. The typical AI data center takes much longer to build. So, you can easily deploy a Bitcoin mining data center and over time, transition that energy load to AI/HPC.
The advantage we have is that we don't have to build big buildings. We're fully containerized, we're fully modular, we can pick up our stuff and go.
Fred Thiel recently spoke at the first-ever Hill Nation Summit about the future of Bitcoin mining. Watch his remarks here.
