{"id":13863,"date":"2021-10-14T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028fb582e0002478"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:52:44","slug":"making-bitcoin-mining-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/making-bitcoin-mining-accessible","title":{"rendered":"Making Bitcoin Mining Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"O1C3Ybr-VDk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making Bitcoin Mining Accessible with Whit Gibbs\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O1C3Ybr-VDk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O1C3Ybr-VDk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch This Episode On YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen To This Episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/making-bitcoin-mining-accessible-with-whit-gibbs\/id1459884105?i=1000538615318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5N2ngUkhawWCFcb3eZcDHi?si=k7ukcrPPRySSGmOrjpNwCw&amp;nd=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9iaXRjb2lubWFnYXppbmUubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M=\/episode\/MzJlYmJiMzItZTJhMi00ZWUyLWFiOWEtODBmMzkxODY3NjE4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Libsyn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+Rp4pzRJmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this episode of &#8220;The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,&#8221; host Christian Keroles was joined by Whit Gibbs, the cofounder and CEO of Compass Mining. Compass Mining&#8217;s mission is to support hash rate growth and network security by making <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/bitcoin-mining\">Bitcoin mining<\/a> accessible for more people. Keroles and Gibbs explored Gibbs&#8217; journey into Bitcoin, his experience building a Bitcoin company, the future of Bitcoin mining, and much more!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing Bitcoin mining accessibility for the masses with Whit Gibbs of Compass Mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2691,"featured_media":13864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1826,189,2641,543,2814],"class_list":{"0":"post-13863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bitcoin-magazine-podcast","9":"tag-bitcoin-mining","10":"tag-compass-mining","11":"tag-video","12":"tag-whit-gibbs"},"author_data":{"id":2691,"name":"Christian Keroles","nicename":"ck-snarks","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo_2025-08-01_01-50-22-1-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/making-bitcoin-mining-accessible.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}