About Darin Feinstein

Darin Feinstein is the Founder of Core Scientific and a non-practicing attorney with vast experience in the investment banking and financial industries.

As an early Bitcoin investor, Feinstein realized that Bitcoin has the ability to rapidly alter how truth functions in society. Feinstein discovered that Bitcoin is the first time in history where recorded ledgers have on-chain immutability, revolutionizing the centuries old problem of accountants and those in control of the ledgers being the sole keepers of truth, subjecting all records to human error, fraud, and corruption. 
 
Feinstein’s passion for Bitcoin led him to purchasing servers from overseas, primarily China, Shanghai, and Beijing. Over an 18-month period in 2012-2014, Feinstein visited China and learned everything he could about the servers and the high power compute data centers that ran them. He quickly realized that the United States lacked the high grade infrastructure to run these servers, and that if he wanted to run these machines at scale, he would either have to send the servers to overseas data centers or build the data centers himself in the United States.
 
After numerous failed attempts to host his machines overseas, Feinstein decided to build his own enterprise grade facility in the United States. Feinstein acquired a facility in Marble, North Carolina and built what would later become the first truly large scale enterprise grade infrastructure company for Bitcoin and AI in the United States, today known as Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ).

LIFE AND EARLY CAREER​

Darin Feinstein graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in accounting. He later earned his Juris Doctor degree (J.D.), before starting his legal career for a real estate investment banking firm. Mr. Feinstein practiced law as in-house counsel for a short period of time before founding his own boutique investment banking firm specializing in distressed asset purchases.

Throughout the early 2000s, Feinstein’s entrepreneurship led him to founding and/or participating in several projects throughout California, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. These projects included real estate, hospitality, entertainment, and technology companies.

 

Core Scientific

In 2017, Feinstein realized that there was a shortage of enterprise-grade infrastructure in the United States for large-scale data computation, both for Bitcoin and AI technology, and formed Core Scientific, bringing much-needed innovation and infrastructure to America.

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Other Experience and Interests

Feinstein’s portfolio includes businesses across the real estate, entertainment, hospitality and food & beverage industries. 

 

He is a managing member of entertainment and venue management company, Red Mercury Entertainment, which is based in Las Vegas. Feinstein is involved with many popular restaurants in the Las Vegas area, including El Dorado Cantina, and Rock and Reilly’s. He is also the largest franchisee in terms of total revenue for the Fatburger brand and the creator and owner of the Fatbar concept.

Fatburger and Fat Bar

Feinstein is the largest franchisee for the Fatburger brand.

Darin Feinstein at a Shade Tree event

Feinstein making donation to The Shade Tree.

Philanthropy

A resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, Feinstein has committed much of his philanthropic and volunteer support to local non-profit organizations and charitable events.

He is actively involved with The Shade Tree Organization, All Star Kids, Keep Memory Alive and Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, at Cleveland Clinic Nevada, and SafeNest, among many others. Feinstein has supported many charity events including NF Hope Concerts, Temple Sinai Gala, and Jammin’ 4 Hope, to name a few.

Feinstein’s philanthropy efforts are rooted in his belief that proper education is crucial to every aspect of life and society, and he has spent over a decade providing meaningful help to children in distressed situations, ensuring they have the proper tools to pave the future of society.
Philanthropy

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