EMCD CEO Michael Jerlis on Bitcoin Mining’s New Era: Optimize or Fall Behind

What does it actually take to survive in Bitcoin mining when every four years the economics get cut in half overnight? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Michael Jerlis is the Founder and CEO of EMCD Tech, one of the world's top ten Bitcoin mining pools operating across more than 120 countries with over 65,000 active users. EMCD users have collectively mined 30,000 BTC and the platform was named Best Mining Pool at the Crypto Awards 2025. Michael has been in the mining space since 2017, survived two halvings, an energy war, tariff chaos, and a market that froze when Bitcoin hit 64k. He does not sugarcoat any of it. YouTube ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He explains: ◼️ Why every halving cuts miner revenue in half and what the only way to survive it is ◼️ Why small miners in garages are gone and what institutional mining actually looks like now ◼️ Why miners are moving their operations to Ethiopia, El Salvador and Latin America for cheap power ◼️ Why tariffs going from 25% to 50% overnight make it nearly impossible to plan equipment purchases ◼️ How the EMCD and Vnish firmware partnership gives miners lower fees and better machine performance ◼️ Why mining pools that only compete on fees are already losing and what actually differentiates EMCD ◼️ Why AI and HPC operations are absorbing miners who can no longer compete on Bitcoin alone ◼️ Why Michael chose Bitcoin over Ethereum mining in 2017 and why that one decision changed everything ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Michael: LinkedIn — https://www.din.com/in/jerlis/ Follow EMCD: Website — https://emcd.io X — https://x.com/emcd_io LinkedIn: https://www.din.com/company/emcd-io/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 More from BeInCrypto: 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Beincrypto 👉 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com 👉 X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/beincrypto 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/+U8DQNp4b8Gw3YmZi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [00:00] Intro [01:00] Is Bitcoin Mining Still Worth It? [02:00] How Two Halvings Nearly Killed The Business [03:00] Why Small Miners Are Disappearing [04:00] The Energy War Nobody Is Talking About [05:00] Where Miners Are Moving To Find Cheap Power [06:00] What Makes EMCD Different From Every Other Pool [08:00] The Vnish Firmware Partnership Explained [10:00] Lower Fees And Free Monitoring: How It Works [12:00] Day To Day Operations After The Partnership [14:30] Where Is Bitcoin Mining Heading In 12 Months? [17:00] Why AI And HPC Are The Next Mining Frontier [20:00] Why Michael Chose Bitcoin Over Ethereum In 2017 [21:30] Don't Sell Your Bitcoin #EMCD #BitcoinMining #MiningPool #MichaelJerlis #BitcoinHalving #CryptoMining2026 #VnishFirmware #BitcoinMiner #HashRate #BeInCrypto