Date: 2026-09-15 Time: 2:30 PM EDT Attendees: Blake Stewart (Founding Journey / Megaphone), Denis Ladanov (GoMining)
Note: GoMining is a prospect, not a registered Megaphone client. This is an inbound partnership/sponsorship conversation.
Summary
Denis Ladanov from GoMining reached out to explore a long-term ambassador-style sponsorship with Founding Journey (Blake’s newsletter, 65K subscribers). GoMining is a “Bitcoin super app” with about 5M total users and 250K active daily/weekly users. They do Bitcoin cloud mining via NFT-backed hashrate (transferable/sellable), plus a wallet, card, travel booking with BTC, and an open payment protocol (GoBTC Pay). Denis is not interested in one-time ad buys; he wants a fixed-fee plus rev-share hybrid. He referenced a previous crypto wallet campaign: 5,500 emails, under 10% conversion, ~$35K revenue. With Founding Journey’s list size he estimates 10x that potential.
The proposed content arc: start with Bitcoin education (myths, mine vs. buy) to warm the audience, then introduce GoMining organically. The GoMining founder is available for podcast or interview formats.
Decisions
None formal. This is an exploratory call; next steps were agreed.
Action Items
- Blake: set up GoMining account (in-app ID) and send to Denis so he can gift miners
- Michael: set up GoMining account, send ID to Denis
- Blake: send audience stats deck to Denis (open rate, typical conversion rates)
- Denis: model rev-share split and propose fixed + referral structure after receiving stats
Notable Excerpts
On the product model (Denis):
“With typical cloud mining, you buy air basically. Our users own hashrate as a transferable and sellable NFT. They can trade it or sell it.”
On the pitch economics:
“With 65K subscribers we estimate potential 10x a previous campaign that did around $35K revenue with only 5,500 emails.”
Full transcript in Granola. Reference ID: c5894346-fac9-4e0f-9395-712938303d22