Founder & CEO, HashNet | TEDx Speaker | 2x Exited Founder | Advisor to Binance Labs-incubated projects & TOKEN2049 pitch winners
Joined August 2024
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Four years ago I looked at the same data every Bitcoin miner had access to and saw a countdown. Most saw a business.
The block reward was getting cut in half, mining was getting harder every month, and most operators had built up debt that only made sense if Bitcoin's price kept rising.
When it didn't, there was nothing to fall back on.
HashNet was built around that conclusion before anyone in the industry wanted to say it out loud.
The interview on @CoinTabNews covers the whole story, including how HashNet avoided the liquidity trap that caught everyone else.
Thanks to Sampson Gideon for the thoughtful feature.
cointab.com/hashnet-ceo-ian-…
The track has changed, but the mindset hasn’t.
Sport taught me discipline, resilience, and consistency. Today, I carry those same principles into building businesses.
Different race. Same hunger. Same drive.
#ianissa #ianissabackground #Entrepreneurship
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An injury ended my first lane.
My second lane built HashNet.
The lane you didn’t plan for can become the one you were meant to run.
Just run it like it’s your first.
#ianissa #hashnet #Crypto #ianissabackground
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Some stages leave you with more than memories,they leave you with new perspectives.
Grateful for the opportunity to meet inspiring individuals and share my insights on the TEDx stage.
#TEDx #Leadership #TheSecondLane
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Everyone is asking if fusion can make enough gold to crash the price. It can't. Wrong question.
Fusion's real product is cheap energy. About half the cost of mining gold is energy. Cheap energy means more gold gets mined, so gold gets less scarce.
Bitcoin is different. Cheap energy can't create one extra coin. The limit stays at 21 million.
The first fusion plants will mine Bitcoin long before they sell any gold.
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
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2 legends 🤝
Happy Birthday to my good friend @NateMorris! Wishing you another incredible year, brother. Also, a huge congratulations on being nominated by President @realDonaldTrump as U.S. Ambassador to Colombia. Proud of you and everything you’ve accomplished. Much deserved! 🇺🇸🎂
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Next week I'm in Lagos for @blockfestafrica 2026, at the National Theatre in Iganmu on 23 Oct.
Big thank you to @imJaeherys for making this happen, and to the Blockfest team for asking me to come out.
See you in Lagos.
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓 🚨
𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀, 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 & 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐍𝐄𝐓.
Since entering the digital asset space in 2017, @Issadefiworld has founded three companies with two successful exits across machine learning, DeFi, and blockchain infrastructure.
Today, he leads HashNet Infrastructure, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency mining company focused on building resilient infrastructure.
This October, Ian joins us at 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.
#BlockfestAfrica #BlockfestAfrica2026
#thenewtraderoute
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$1,000 invested 15 years ago today would be worth:
• Bitcoin: $8,970,000
• Nvidia: $735,000
• Tesla: $231,000
• Apple: $29,000
• S&P: $8,400
• Gold: $2,150
Woke up in Chandigarh to my face in the Hindustan Times (@htTweets), next to @OpenAI, @Google, @Visa and @Snapchat.
I speak at @TEDxSukhna. Tagore Theatre, 9:30 AM.
Four years ago I started a mining company on the idea that resilient systems are designed, not left to chance. The industry thought that was wasted effort. This year they're selling Bitcoin to fund AI pivots.
Today I get to explain why.
@TEDTalks
#MineWhatMatters
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Bitcoin has officially reclaimed the title of the best-performing asset over the past decade, surpassing NVDA.
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CATHIE WOOD’S #BITCOIN BULL CASE IS $1.5M BY 2030 🤯
"Our base case for Bitcoin is around $730,000 by 2030, and our bull case is 1.5 MILLION" 🚀
India. Stop one on the Transparency Tour.
Three years running as the most crypto-adopted country on earth, under a 30% tax and 1% on every transaction. Nobody here got in because it was easy.
At every stop so far, someone has waited for the room to empty and told me about money they lost to a mining company that stopped replying.
Phnom Penh. Bangkok. Manila. Hanoi. Tallinn. Same story every time.
So I brought the same thing I always bring. Live dashboard. Live pool accounts. Signed documents. On-chain proof anyone can check while I'm still in the room.
Not asking you to believe me. Asking you to check.
Mine What Matters.
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I am speaking at @tedxsukhna Lake on August 26 in Chandigarh.
Theme: Age of Possibilities.
My argument: most failures get called market failures. Most of them are design failures in a costume. @TEDx
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