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The Bitcoin-Heated Hot Tub Is Real
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- We Are Satoshi
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- Apr 28, 2026
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- 3309
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Summary
Michael left Microsoft, bought a 1979 cedar hot tub company, and is now bringing it into the Bitcoin era.In this episode, I sit down with Michael, the new owner of Snorkel Hot Tubs, a Seattle-based company making cedar hot tubs, cold plunges, and now… Bitcoin miner heated hot tubs.We talk about his transition out of corporate life, buying and modernizing an old-school American business, the beauty of building physical products, and how Bitcoiners pushed him toward one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while: the Hash Tub.After bringing Snorkel to a Bitcoin conference, Michael kept hearing the same question:“Can it be heated with Bitcoin?”That question led him down the heat punk rabbit hole — working with Hashrate House, taking the tub to the Heat Punk Summit in Denver, winning an innovation award, and bringing the Bitcoin heated hot tub to the Bitcoin world.This conversation is about much more than hot tubs.It’s about craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, taking ownership of your life, building things that last, and creating real products and services for the circular Bitcoin economy.Satoshi gifted us bitcoin so we could bring our gifts to the world.Michael’s gift just happens to involve cedar, water, fire, heat, and hash rate.Follow Snorkel:Website: https://snorkel.comX: @SnorkelHotTubsNostr: @SnorkelHotTubsFollow Kyle / We Are Satoshi:Website: https://kylehuber.comYouTube: @WeAreSatoshiPodX: @KyleHuberTimestamps:Chapters:00:00 Welcome Michael00:24 Leaving Microsoft01:13 Buying Snorkel Hot Tubs03:41 What Snorkel makes06:14 Building a Bitcoin heated hot tub07:32 Hashrate House and the Hash Tub08:06 Heat Punk Summit09:12 The Vegas shipping disaster10:52 Is the Hash Tub ready for sale?12:32 How the Bitcoin hot tub works14:34 Mining heat vs electric heat16:07 Why bring it to…