Alan Gallo opened his talk at Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale 2025, held March 25–27, 2025, by going back to 2022. Two years earlier, he told the room on the conference's second day, Bitcoin had fallen from almost $70,000 to almost $20,000, and a lot of people lost faith in it. Gallo, business development and marketing manager at JSBIT, a company that supplies ASIC mining hardware to miners, used that drop to set up his subject: the future of ASIC mining, and who gets to take part in it.
The people who stayed through the drop, he said, were the ones in it for the long term, and he met some of them during that period and calls them friends today. They did not care, he said, that the price had gone from almost $70,000 to $20,000. He remembered the mood on stage at the time.
I had people up on stage saying I love me a $20,000 Bitcoin.
Alan Gallo · 0:59
"And looking back, I did too," he added, saying he wished he had taken advantage of the low price. He said a big shift is coming and that he hopes the price of Bitcoin stabilizes over time. He named three forces behind that shift. The first is government adoption, which he said gives more people access to Bitcoin in a safe way, since many people do not want to take on the risk of its volatility. The second is evolving hardware, from large manufacturers and from smaller companies trying to get into the space. The third is decentralization, through the rise of home mining. People all over the world, he said, are starting to think that mining can be for them too, and that it is not only for operators with a big farm.
Four things JSBIT says it does
To get hardware to miners "no matter where you may be," Gallo said, JSBIT relies on four basic structures. The first is trusted brands: he named Bitmain, MicroBT and ElphaPex, and said there are many more. The second is fast shipping, which he said means buyers do not have to worry about machines getting stuck along the way. The third is warranty and tested units, with both used and new machines on offer so buyers can make their own choice. The fourth is expert support from sales teams and, as he put it, people who love to mine.
We are all miners.
Alan Gallo · 2:31
Gallo said that matters because everyone on the team has had a piece of mining and understands it, so they can help customers better. He described the manufacturers in his own terms. Bitmain, he said, is revolutionizing the industry, with machines that many people in the audience had started using and continue to use. MicroBT, in his words, makes a product that everyone there could call "a tank in the industry."
The ElphaPex partnership and a miner for the home
JSBIT connected with ElphaPex the year before the talk, Gallo said, and became its official global strategic partner, helping the manufacturer reach miners all over the world. He said ElphaPex then came out with products "that have never been seen before."
His case for those products started from a problem. Mining, he said, is tough and is not something most people can easily do. GPU mining used to be the way in. ASIC mining moved the industry forward, but in his telling it left the people who wanted to be in the middle without a place. Decentralization, he said, has opened the door to home mining. When ElphaPex told the JSBIT team that it wanted to get into the home mining space, he asked a lot of people what they thought, and the excitement grew.
The product he described is a machine for the home that connects to any outlet. "It doesn't have to be a special outlet," he said. Owners, he said, can be earning daily profits, and the heat it gives off has a use as well.
You can be heating your home with this product.
Alan Gallo · 4:29
He compared the reaction to the moment people first discover Bitcoin and realize they can earn it themselves. Home mining, he said, gives people the sense that they have a chance, that they can get started and learn. He tied the idea to one machine by name: "the DG Home one is there for it." He did not say in the talk which coin the DG Home mines.
How miners stay ahead
Gallo closed with advice for miners. The first point was to keep upgrading wisely and to have a plan. The future of ASIC mining, he said, "will be there whether you are or not, but you can't get greedy." Miners, in his view, have to change and pivot every now and again, grow their hashrate and use it more effectively.
The second point was efficiency. "Electricity is expensive," he said. For his own mining at home, he said, he does not worry about it: he keeps what he earns and may sell it later. But for anyone who wants to grow a mine, he said, energy is the first thing to consider.
The third point was to embrace decentralization, including outside the United States. He pointed to the hashrate migration from China a few years earlier, which he said made the United States "the pinnacle of mining," and to the growth of mines in South America and Africa.
And that's where the movement is going to happen because it doesn't matter where you mine as long as it makes sense to you.
Alan Gallo · 6:12
He ended by asking the audience to connect with JSBIT, describing its team as miners "just like you" with experience in the industry. The future, he said, will be there either way.
The truth, though, is are you prepared for it?
Alan Gallo · 6:32
When Gallo spoke, Bitcoin traded at $87,393. On October 27, 2026, it was $79,673.