About this episode
Michael discusses his transition from Microsoft to owning a hot tub company and integrating Bitcoin into his business.
Michael left Microsoft, bought a 1979 cedar hot tub company, and is now bringing it into the Bitcoin era.In this episode, I sit down with Michael, the new owner of Snorkel Hot Tubs, a Seattle-based company making cedar hot tubs, cold plunges, and now… Bitcoin miner heated hot tubs.We talk about his transition out of corporate life, buying and modernizing an old-school American business, the beauty of building physical products, and how Bitcoiners pushed him toward one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while: the Hash Tub.After bringing Snorkel to a Bitcoin conference, Michael kept hearing the same question:“Can it be heated with Bitcoin?”That question led him down the heat punk rabbit hole — working with Hashrate House, taking the tub to the Heat Punk Summit in Denver, winning an innovation award, and bringing the Bitcoin heated hot tub to the Bitcoin world.This conversation is about much more than hot tubs.It’s about craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, taking ownership of your life, building things that last, and creating real products and services for the circular Bitcoin economy.Satoshi gifted us bitcoin so we could bring our gifts to the world.Michael’s gift just happens to…
People in this episode
Host: Kyle Huber
Guest: Michael
Topics covered
- Bitcoin
- entrepreneurship
- hot tubs
- craftsmanship
- innovation
- circular economy
Keywords
- Bitcoin
- hot tub
- entrepreneurship
- innovation
- Snorkel Hot Tubs
- Hash Tub
- craftsmanship
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Microsoft, Snorkel Hot Tubs, Hashrate House
Products: Hash Tub
Places: Seattle
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