Scot Johnson joins us at Consensus 2025 to discuss how miners are adapting to Trump’s tariffs and forthcoming innovations in the bitcoin mining container landscape.

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Scot Johnson from Digital Shovel joins us from Toronto during Consensus 2025. Digital Shovel manufactures Bitcoin mining containers and electrical infrastructure in Canada. He discusses the impact of Trump's 10% tariffs on bitcoin mining infrastructure, Digital Shovel’s plans to open US assembly operations, the company’s upcoming gen 3 container design, and their new Blue Ax home miner.

# Notes:

- Digital Shovel makes vertically integrated mining containers

- 10% tariff from US to Canada affecting business

- Electrical infrastructure was majority of 2023 sales

- Blue Ax home miner launching at $99

- 7.2 TH/s pro version coming July 1st

- Newfoundland has 1.9¢/kWh Canadian power

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:14 What is Digital Shovel?

02:42 General compute infrastructure

03:52 Competing with bigger manufacturers

05:23 AI hardware

06:12 Made in North America

07:51 Adapting to tariffs

08:46 Modular vs permanent buildings

09:50 Example of AI & minings build

12:42 Who's buying?

14:36 Texas market

16:10 New Canadian government

17:28 Tariffs are taxes on business

19:38 Container design changes

21:12 Air vs liquid cooling

21:31 New chip cooling designs

23:33 BluAX

27:27 Canadian facts

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