Ariel Deschapell

Ariel Deschapell is Co-Founder and CTO of Hydra Host, an NVIDIA Cloud Partner operating 20,000+ GPUs across 40+ global data centers. A Bitcoin developer and writer since 2014, he has published extensively in Bitcoin Magazine and CoinDesk on protocol governance, conservative development philosophy, and scaling debates. His February 2022 piece “Against The Inevitability of Bitcoin” was featured on Bitcoin Audible.

Deschapell also has extensive policy experience, having held the Henry Hazlitt Fellowship at the Foundation for Economic Education and served as a Senior Fellow for Crypto and Web3 at the Foundation for American Innovation. He submitted independent comments to the SEC on digital asset custody (April 2021) and responded to the Department of Commerce’s request for information on GPU export policy (late 2025). He is a founder of BIPBounty.org, an initiative funding bounties for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal reviews.

His recent work articulates “Compute Maximalism”—the thesis that Bitcoin mining and AI workloads are synergistic rather than competitive, with Bitcoin providing flexible, interruptible load that complements AI inference demands. He brings hands-on Bitcoin development experience, policy credentials, and current infrastructure leadership at the intersection of Bitcoin mining economics and AI compute.