August–September 2026 Cohort · Palestine, Texas
Remote Mining Operations & Optimization
Two days with your hands on real hardware. Three days running a fleet the way the job is actually done — from a screen. Forty proctored hours, zero slides.
August 31 – September 4, 2026 · Vista Ridge Training Center, Palestine TX · 40 clock hours · No prior experience required
20 seats. One section. Not ready to book? Ask us anything first — we'd rather you arrive sure than surprised.
This isn’t a seminar
You will not sit through slides. The course is 100% practical: you learn by doing, and every competency is demonstrated in person and witnessed before it is recorded.
The week is sequenced from the cheapest intervention to the most expensive. An operator who can fix a machine from a browser is worth more than one who rolls a truck first — and this course builds that instinct with hands-on hardware context underneath it. You learn what the dashboard is describing by having held the thing it describes.
The diagnostic hierarchy — Network → Power → Firmware → Hardware — is set up in the pre-work week, drilled Days 1–2 in front of the racks, then exercised for three days the way a remote operator exercises it: through the monitoring stack.
Entry level, on purpose
No prerequisites for public seats. No prior mining experience. If you can follow a procedure and keep your hands steady, you can do this work.
Vendor-neutral
Fleet platforms, firmware suites, and pool dashboards are shown side by side as classes of tools. What you learn transfers to whatever stack your employer runs.
You own the record
You leave with a Certificate of Completion and a Proof of Skills record that names the competencies you demonstrated — not a participation trophy.
What you leave able to do
- Deploy, tear down, swap, and triage live miners without supervision
- Work the Network → Power → Firmware → Hardware hierarchy under time pressure
- Read fleet health and tell a real fault from noise
- Set alert discipline that surfaces problems instead of burying them
- Stage changes across a fleet without taking it down
- Quantify underperformance in hashrate and in dollars
- Make the swap / RMA / repair call and defend it
The week
| Day | Where you are | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-work (Aug 24–30) | Remote, self-paced | Vocabulary, anatomy, safety, error codes, the diagnostic hierarchy |
| Monday | At the racks | Deployment and teardown on real machines |
| Tuesday | At the racks | Swaps, triage, live fault work |
| Wednesday | At a workstation | Fleet monitoring: reading health, setting alerts |
| Thursday | At a workstation | Optimization: tuning, staging changes, quantifying gains |
| Friday | At a workstation | Running the operation; assessment and Proof of Skills |
How you’re assessed
Observed → Guided → Independent. Every competency is re-exercised across multiple days, so a checkoff missed on the first attempt can be re-attempted later in the week. The record shows the level you achieved — never the number of tries.
There is no fail. A student who doesn’t close a requirement by Friday receives an Incomplete with a written remediation plan naming the specific competency and a defined re-sit — the next make-up day, or the same block in the next cohort, at no additional tuition.
A documented court date, parole or probation check-in, or mandated appointment is an excused absence, not a withdrawal. The accommodation moves when the rep happens, never whether it happened.
The pre-work week
Registering after the pre-work week started?
You can still attend. The pre-work week (August 24–30) is preparation, not a gate — nothing in it blocks Monday attendance, and a student who only watches the recordings is fully eligible for Day 1. There is a catch-up session on Friday August 28, offered midday and evening.
If you're registering late, tell us and we'll get you the recordings and a catch-up slot. We'd rather you arrive prepared than pretend the calendar is something it isn't.
Tooling for the pre-work week is deliberately light: a browser and a read-only dashboard account. A library PC or a borrowed tablet works. If you don’t have a device or a quiet space, say so when you register — a hosted seat can be arranged.
Logistics
- Arrive Sunday, August 30. Class starts 9:00 AM sharp Monday.
- Venue: Vista Ridge Training Center, Palestine, Texas.
- Lodging: a room block is arranged for the week. Tell us you want details when you register and we’ll put a person on it — we won’t promise a rate we can’t hold.
- Meals and PPE are covered. You’ll get a PPE list before you travel.
Tuition
$2,895
Per seat, all-inclusive of instruction, materials, tools, safety gear, machines, and pre-work access.
Travel and lodging are arranged separately. Sponsored seats are available through partner programs — if a program is sponsoring you, you'll be given a code to enter at registration.
Tuition is processed by Bitcoin Mining Institute LLC, Orange Collar Academy's co-founding partner. Your card statement will show BMI* OCA TRAINING — not "Orange Collar Academy" — and your payment receipt comes from Bitcoin Mining Institute. Your enrollment agreement and your Certificate of Completion come from Orange Collar Academy.
Still deciding?
Talk to a person. If you’re not sure the course fits, whether your schedule works, how sponsorship works, or what to do about travel — ask before you pay. We answer within 48 hours, and we’d rather talk you out of the wrong week than take your money for it.
Questions about this course? Tell us what you need to know and we'll come back to you directly.
Contact us about this coursePrefer email? info@orangecollaracademy.com
Questions
Do I need experience?
No. Public seats have no prerequisites. The course is built for people entering the field.
What do I leave with?
An OCA Certificate of Completion and a Proof of Skills record listing the competencies you demonstrated and the level you reached on each.
How big is the class?
One section. Hands-on days run at our standard of eight students per instructor, with three instructors on the floor.
What happens after I pay?
You'll receive a receipt immediately, then an enrollment agreement to sign. Your enrollment is complete when that agreement is signed and returned. You'll also get pre-work instructions and lodging details.
Can I cancel?
Yes. The cancellation and refund terms are set out in the school catalog and in the enrollment agreement, and you'll receive both. Contact us and we'll walk you through it.
Is my seat held while I pay?
Yes — 30 minutes. If payment isn't completed the seat returns to the pool automatically, so nobody's seat is quietly locked up by an abandoned checkout.
Orange Collar Academy LLC
200 Vista Ridge, Palestine, TX 75801
Cancellation and refund terms are set out in the school catalog and in the enrollment agreement. You will receive a copy of the enrollment agreement and the catalog at the time of signing.