yBitcoinMagazine
10/10/14
2:20 PM
Page 97
Pioneer
That drive saw Cole snag contracts with hundreds of companies over his prosperous IT years, from sole proprietor hairdressers to Nestlé, Hewlett-Packard, GlaxoSmithKline and other titans of the corporate world. Last year, sensing favorable winds for Bitcoin and the crypocurrency movement and seeing a wide gulf between demand for mining equipment and its supply, he teamed with partners Sponsored Content
Andreas Kennemar, Marcus Erlandsson and Michael Unnebäck to launch KnCMiner. The company quickly went on to sell millions of dollars worth of equipment and (literally) set world records for speed of chip production, taking mining equipment to rarefied heights of raw computing power. With it all has come rather high visibility in the highly technical Bitcoin world for a man still not that far removed
from his boyhood farm—nor the values it engendered. “I still have my tractor driver’s license,” Cole muses. “To this day I have no trouble with early morning starts. There are no lazy farmers. When my father stopped farming, he went on to own a sawmill, so you can say he went from farming to forestry and didn’t miss a beat. I come from a long line of people who are willing to commit.” yBitcoin.com
97