Editor’s note (2026): This is part of the Whinstone press archive on chadeverettharris.com — a transcript-style walk-through I recorded inside building G in June 2022. The original framed everything around the publicly traded acquirer at the time. For the press archive I have softened the possessive language so the focus stays on what mattered: 11 […]
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Editor’s note (2026): This post is part of the Whinstone press archive on chadeverettharris.com. It originally ran in January 2022 from the Rockdale, TX construction site, when the build was in flight and the daily rhythm was a drone, a dog, and a coffee. Light edits below: small framing tweaks for clarity, neutral references to
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Whinstone US drone photography, in context Whinstone US drone photography is what I shot every day at the Rockdale, Texas site during the 400-megawatt expansion. The original post ran in January 2022, in the middle of the build. The kit was a DJI Mavic 3 Cine. The cadence was daily. The point was a documentation
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The Whinstone bitcoin mining facility, in context The Whinstone bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas was, by metered capacity, the largest Bitcoin mining site in North America. I was the CEO. We broke ground in late 2019, deployed the first 300 megawatts in 183 days, and were running a 400-megawatt expansion concurrently. This post archives
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Archived November 2021 Thinking Crypto podcast interview with Chad Harris covering the 183-day Whinstone build in Rockdale, Texas.
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My 3T Exploro Bike Review offers a comparisons of my favorite bikes from the early 1980’s to today. The simple truth, The 3T Exploro is A Beast! My Favorite Bikes I’ve Ridden Compared to the 3T Exploro I have ridden a lot of different bicycles over the years. Here is a list of my favorites,
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Love Affair with Plants I spent three decades in an entrepreneur affair with the green industry. Over those thirty years, I fell in love with plants and I fell out of love with the green industry. It sounds funny when I type it, the industry where I started my career became the industry I disliked
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I read an article recently about the importance of learning from our senior citizens. I always enjoyed chatting with my neighbor Clyde Leblanc, who is in his 90’s. He had an interesting perspective on everything and always added value to my thought process. I appreciated the fact that he’d experienced every economic landscape from boom
On a summer afternoon, 232 days ago, I ended up in Rockdale, Texas in search of a site for a project our team was developing. I notice a sign along the road that read, ” BBQ” and a blue trailer with seating. I continued traveling to Rockdale every Tuesday on the 5am flight and returning
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Since the age of 10, I have been curious about gardening and how to growth things. I lived on an island outside of Detroit called Grosse Isle. I was fortunate enough to have a large glass greenhouse to experiment growing different plants young age. Funny story, my mom would tell the same story when I
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