For the right person, this could be an excellent opportunity to get into Bitcoin mining (that earns ancillary revenue) at a in history where this is rising fast. I know the founder personally so can vouch for his integrity.
Is this you?
Looking for a Mining Ops Lead / Co-Founder
Orange Wheel puts flexible compute where a controllable load makes energy assets worth more, while stabilizing increasingly congested grids and lowering power prices for consumer.
Most often that means co-locating behind-the-meter with wind or solar+BESS assets, monetising power that would otherwise be curtailed, negatively priced, or stuck waiting on a grid connection. It works equally behind-the-meter at a consumption site, or at a dedicated balancing site, in some cases alongside storage.
The configuration changes; the logic doesn't — a load that can move on demand is worth more to the asset owner and to the grid than one that can't. The compute layer today is primarily Bitcoin mining.
Where we are
Copenhagen-based, incorporated, self-funded.
Proprietary stochastic project evaluation model (Monte Carlo, P10/P50/P90) used in live developer conversations
Regulatory groundwork done across our target markets — the connection, curtailment and behind-the-meter rules that decide whether a project pencils, market by market
Live conversations with developers, IPPs and asset owners in Northern Europe, and selective opportunities beyond it
Small team of advisors, minimal equity dilution
The gap
My background is energy — petroleum engineering, management consulting and energy market analysis at BCG, and corporate strategy and development and Maersk and OMV. Alongside that I've spent years on Bitcoin: its long-term value proposition, and the hashrate and price dynamics that drive mining economics. I can model a project, structure a PPA and get in front of a developer's investment committee. What I can't credibly claim is having run a site. That's the hole, and closing it — with someone whose strengths start where mine stop — is what takes this from a well-modelled thesis to sites that actually run.
What you'd own
Everything related to Project Delivery and Operations :
Site and container design
Hardware procurement and fleet strategy
Firmware and curtailment response
O&M Strategy
The opex side of our economic model — your numbers, not my estimates. Whatever we underwrite a project on, you own the cost assumptions that make it real
Building the ops team as sites come online: what the roles are, who we hire, how we train them. We'll add people as development justifies it, but the strategy for that is yours from the start
Being the person in the room when a counterparty asks an operational question I shouldn't be answering
Who you are
Required
You have personally run mining capacity at meaningful scale and owned uptime, not just observed it
You're comfortable that the hardest part of this is unsolved. Operating against a live grid signal — curtailment, demand response, dynamic pricing — is where the value sits, and it's genuinely rare experience. We will be working parts of it out as we go. I want someone who finds that the interesting bit rather than the risky bit
You think in fleet economics: hashprice, efficiency curves, resale and repair, not just "machines on"
You're analytical about Bitcoin rather than evangelical. We lead with "flexible compute" to energy counterparties, deliberately. If that framing bothers you, we're probably not a fit
Helpful, not required
Direct experience running against curtailment, demand response or dynamic pricing rather than flat-rate hosting — rare, and a real advantage if you have it
European or Nordic operating experience
Immersion or hydro cooling
DC-coupled or behind-the-meter configurations
Grid services markets (FCR, aFRR, mFRR)
Danish or German
Not required — I cover these
Energy market modelling
PPA structuring
Developer BD
Fundraising
Terms
Denmark is ideal. DACH or the wider Nordics are a close second; elsewhere in Europe we can make work if the fit is right.
On money, plainly: there is no salary at the moment. Not a reduced one — none. Orange Wheel is self-funded and pre-revenue, and I'd rather you hear that here than on the third call.
What's on offer instead is real ownership: [10–20%] depending on shape and when you come in, properly documented and vested. Cash compensation starts at first revenue-generating site or first external raise, whichever lands first — and if neither has happened within 18 months, we sit down and revisit the whole arrangement rather than letting it drift.
Part-time to start is fine, and probably sensible. Plenty of this can be built alongside consulting or another income while we get to the first site. What it needs is runway of some kind — severance, savings, freelance work, a partner's salary. If your situation doesn't allow that right now, say so early: it's a timing problem rather than a fit problem, and I'd want to stay in touch as we get funded.
Open on shape: co-founder, or advisor first with a defined path to more.
If this sounds like you or someone you know, [email protected].
Short version
Copenhagen-based Orange Wheel is looking for someone who has run Bitcoin mining sites to build the ops side of a flexible-compute business in Northern Europe — co-located with generation, behind the meter at consumption sites, or at dedicated balancing sites, sometimes with storage.
Founder covers energy: petroleum engineering, BCG/Maersk, live developer pipeline, regulatory groundwork across the target markets.
Missing: a person who has actually run a site at scale and owned uptime, and who wants to work out grid-responsive operation with me rather than needing to have done it already. You'd own opex assumptions in the model and build the ops team as sites come online.
Equity only to start — 10-20% (Earned over 3 years), no salary until first site or first raise, revisited at 18 months either way. Part-time alongside consulting works fine. Denmark ideal, DACH/Nordics close second. If you've been let go in an AI pivot and want to build rather than get absorbed — [email protected]
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Quick ask — I'm trying to find a person who has run Bitcoin mining operations, to join Orange Wheel on the ops side. I've got the energy half covered (modelling, PPAs, developer pipeline in Northern Europe); what I need is someone who has actually run sites at scale and is up for figuring out grid-responsive operation as we go. Equity only for now — no salary until we're funded or revenue-generating, so it needs someone with runway, though part-time alongside consulting works fine. Denmark ideal, DACH or Nordics work too.
Does anyone come to mind? Happy to send a fuller description if useful.
