For years, Bitcoin's energy was much maligned. This was based on deeply flawed and now debunked research. Now, the tide has turned in the scientific consensus and the media and I've summarized why both now say Bitcoin has environmental benefits in a plain English talk.

If your emotions are swung around by the movements of a price chart, are you free ? Freedom and self-sovereignty is not only what you think

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I've tweeted a couple of times that Bitcoin wins when Bitcoiners become as anti-fragile as Bitcoin itself. Here's 120 seconds on what this means, and how we start to do that.

Talk about slowly then .... Just got off a call with a waste mgmt consortium who have 1. significant methane emissions on multiple landfills affecting air quality, tourism, human health 2. concluded the only viable solution is Bitcoin mining 3. are asking when we can visit They don't want one Bitcoin on of their landfills, they want it piloted on one, then rolled out to all the other major emitters. And because methane is such a powerful greenhouse gas, just one of these landfill will offset the emissions of a whole midsized city. 3 years ago, landfill owners didn't want to know us/ Fellow-environmentalists scoffed at the idea Bitcoin mining could do anything good for the environment. Fellow investors said things like "remind me the name of your fund, so I'm sure never to invest" The impact that Bitcoin can make for people and planet is only just beginning.

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Sneak preview of some of the new charts in this week's newsletter. This one shows a major mining geo-trends in the last year Byline for the chart: Bitcoin goes "yum, yum" when it sees wasted renewable energy.

“Knowing the Bitcoin→AI transition consequence on hashrate” is to trading hashprice as “knowing about which large pension fund are about to allocate AUM to Bitcoin”, is to trading Bitcoin price. Tomorrow's newsletter will have a section and some pretty charts on this.

Bitcoin is the first technology I've ever seen as a technology investor where the utility is felt in the Global South first, and the returns were open to retail investors first. Either of those things by itself is unique. Both together is a once in a generation technology.

21 examples of where MSM 🧡 BTC (Mining) 3 years ago the mainstream press had one Bitcoin mining story: and it was about wasted electricity. Since then, as they started to better understand the technology, the narrative flipped on its head. None of them framed it as a change of position, so nobody noticed there had been one. Here's my favorite 21 quotes on Bitcoin and energy from major news outlets since the narrative turned. 1. BBC "The bitcoin mine now accounts for around 30% of the plant's revenue allowing them to keep the prices down for the local town." 2. Wall Street Journal "Bhutan now boasts a stash of bitcoins worth $1.3 billion, or roughly 40% of the country's gross domestic product, according to cryptocurrency platform Arkham." 3. Al Jazeera "In 2023, the Bhutanese government sold $100m of cryptocurrency to double the salaries of civil servants." 4. Euronews "The country's crypto mines could, at least on paper, have little to no carbon footprint at all." 5. CNBC "At one of the Gridless pilot sites in Kenya, the hydro plant dropped the price of power from 35 cents per kilowatt hour to 25 cents per kWh." 6. Business Insider "Numbers from Ethiopia Electric Power show thountry raked in over $55 million from electricity sales for Bitcoin mining in 2024 alone—18% of their total revenue." 7. UnHerd "This initiative flips that narrative by using Bitcoin mining to fund energy in parts of Africa that are too poor or remote to merit connection to grids, but which do have plentiful supplies of potential power sources." 8. MIT Technology Review "We're making Bitcoin out of surplus energy and monetizing something that otherwise has no value." 9. Financial Times "The cryptocurrency could allow previously unprofitable, small electrical grids linked to local renewable energy to become "financially viable" in developing countries and in turn improve electricity access" 10. The Independent "Solar and wind energy installations could earn hundreds of millions of dollars by mining bitcoin during periods of excess electricity generation, according to a new study." 11. Reuters "Engie is looking at installing storage systems or bitcoin mining data centers at its new solar plant in Brazil to make the facility more profitable" 12. Fox Business "Some 52.4% of sustainable energy sources are used for mining, led by 42.6% renewables, including wind and hydropower, as well as 9.8% nuclear." 13. Times of India "excess heat from [Bitcoin mining] computing could support crop production while reducing fossil fuel use" 14. The Street "partners in the transition to renewable energy" 15. Forbes "bitcoin mining is the only technologically viable solution for mitigating methane emissions" 16. Reuters "MARA's process captures gas that would have been flared" Flares leak around 9% of the methane straight through. A generator destroys nearly all of it, which is why capture beats burning. 17. Bloomberg "Iceland has become a refuge for Bitcoin miners as energy costs soar and regulatory pressure on cryptocurrency operations mount in the US and other countries." What draws them is a renewable surplus Iceland has no other way to sell. 18. Fast Company Bitcoin mining "could help address a chronic clean electricity oversupply problem, which has cost energy companies ~$1 billion in the last two years" That is Brazil, and the billion is what the oversupply has already cost. 19. South China Morning Post "Now, in a bid to turn this excess into economic gain, the government is embracing the energy-intensive business of cryptocurrency mining." Laos built the dams first. The excess is hydro it cannot otherwise use. 20. NRK (Norway's state media company) "The data center accounted for 20 percent of Noranett's revenue. Now it's the remaining electricity customers who have to pay that bill." The town had campaigned to close that site over the noise and cheered when it went. Grid tariffs then rose 20%, around 2,500 to 3,000 kroner a year per household. 21. Inc "Once online, miners become part of the energy ecosystem and oftentimes adjust their daily power use to help balance the grid." A smattering of negative coverage still runs. What has changed is that the positive coverage is no longer rare. In fact - it is now outnumbers the amount of negative coverage. The shift started happening well before the media started reporting on AI datacenters, and was as a result of a number of researchers and Bitcoiners who put in the work to make this possible. 21 positive stories on Bitcoin and energy, and not one of them written by a Bitcoiner. Worth celebrating!

JUST IN: Senegal's Prime Minister's Office has just given approval to a Bitcoin mining pilot to use Bitcoin mining on stranded renewable energy The potential to accelerate rural electrification was a big part of the reason Africa gets Bitcoin!

Media is reporting BTC Mining pivoting to AI. Zero reporting on - what % has converted, vs forecast to convert - what happens to those ASICs - is this decentralizing the network - what it means for grids losing flexible load I could write about this. Who's interesting in it?

Last year, a Bitcoin mining company commissioned this satellite readings from this superemitter landfill emitting 1.5 tonnes of methane every single hour! Mitigating these emissions has the impact of - taking 263,413 cars off the road - or ... - planting 1,130,040 acres of US forest One year later, the project just took another step forward to viability. The landfill owner wants to move ahead with a Bitcoin mining solution, and the economics pan out for everyone. This is one of 5 landfills now in an advanced stage or discussions with the landfill owner. Our vision is not that Bitcoin no longer gets energy FUD, it's that Bitcoin becomes widely recognized as a powertool of environmental and social justice First step is to get the world's first project started on a landfill that's currently venting its methane. So, LFG! = landfill gas