Bitcoin is Saving Small Farms
About this episode
Mark Smith discusses how Bitcoin and agrivoltaics can empower small farms to become self-sustaining and financially independent.
In this episode, Brandon Karpeles speaks with Mark Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Carbon Country. After spending over a decade in corporate America navigating the political and business landscape for major brands, Mark stepped off the hamster wheel to build a regenerative farm powered by solar energy and secured by Bitcoin. They discuss the broken incentives of industrial fiat agriculture and how combining agrivoltaics (dual-use solar and farming) with Bitcoin mining can allow small farms to become their own banks. In this episode, we cover: • Escaping Corporate Life: Mark’s journey from international government affairs and corporate America to realizing the "golden handcuffs" were just a cage. • Agrivoltaics & Dual-Use Farming: How Carbon Country uses solar panels in tandem with regenerative agriculture to maximize the utility of the land and keep farms profitable. • Community Solar & Microgrids: Why decentralizing the power grid can provide cheap, renewable energy to local and low-income communities. • Farms as Their Own Banks: How Carbon Country uses excess energy to mine Bitcoin, generating digital assets that replace traditional fiat lenders for working…
Keywords
- corporate life
- golden handcuffs
- microgrids
- self-sustaining farms
- Center for Small Farm Resilience
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