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Homepage > News > Business > Power, Protocol, Protection: Mitch Burcham on Weekly Livestream On this week’s episode of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, BINARY founder Mitch Burcham told Kurt Wuckert Jr. about the state of the U.S. grid, how solar power will revolutionize energy, and how a more robust, decentralized grid can be built on the Bitcoin protocol. title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” allowfullscreen=””> Who is Mitch Burcham? And a bit about the US grid Burcham is an entrepreneur and Founder of BINARY. He’s also the National Blockchain Director at the Homeland Security Taskforce, giving him unique insight into both the government and business worlds. Burcham describes the last few years of his life as a “deep dive” into the American grid. He describes it as highly complex and originally built by central planning. At its inception, Alternating Current (AC) won out, and they got economies of scale via coal-fired plants and hydro dams. While it still works great, the way it was designed created monopolies. Everything relies on the wires that the companies that built the grid own, and to this day, it depends on the monolithic structures they control. Burcham describes this as “infrastructure jenga,” warning that it will inevitably collapse. This inevitable collapse is a feature of the top-down model, Burcham tells us. Thankfully, we now have solar panels—a distributed technology that can power almost anything locally. What is Burcham’s idea for a more robust grid? Burcham begins his answer by stating an obvious fact: the sun is the biggest energy producer we’ll ever find. It emits limitless energy wirelessly, giving him nuclear fusion on his rooftop. The Earth always has been and always will be solar-powered, so this energy source is part of the solution for him. However, the…

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