Today's round was baaaaaad. Very sore. #Bitcoin CEO really gotta up the price soon. #proofofworkout #100pushups #100adayuntil100k

All work, all play. All the time. (weights are 20kg) #proofofworkout #100pushups #100adayuntil100k

GM. Peak fiat mentality: trans/Judith Butler in the _Financial Times_.

100 push-ups a day til 100k. Oh, also handstands and weighted pull-ups, bitches. #proofofworkout #fitness #100pushupsaday

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Bitcoin Scoops Up Stranded and Excess Power

Bitcoin mining, far from being unnecessary drivers of climate change, is the missing puzzle piece that stabilizes volatile green energy and makes e...

#econostr #bitcoin #demandresponse #AIER #economics

My latest for American Institute for Economic Research, on bitcoin and electricity grids:

Bitcoin Scoops Up Stranded and Excess Power | The Daily Economy

"Bitcoin mining, far from being unnecessary drivers of climate change, is the missing puzzle piece that stabilizes volatile green energy and makes solar and wind power work for us instead of against us." #econstr #economics #energygrids #mainstreamingbitcoin

Always be pushing your boundaries; always go further. Winter paradise salutes you. #nature #photography

Energy is life. For the world and its inhabitants to live better lives—freer, richer, safer, nicer, and more comfortable lives—the world needs more energy, not less. There are no rich, low-energy countries and no poor, high-energy countries. For decades, our central-planning mindset had us “help” the Global South by directing resources there—building things we thought Africans needed, sending money to (mostly) corrupt leaders in the hopes that schools be built or economic growth be kick-started. We squandered billions in goodhearted nongovernmental organization projects. Even for an astute and serious energy commentator as Bryce, not once in his 40-page report on how to electrify the Global South did it occur to him that bitcoin miners—the very people who are turning the lights on for the poorest in the world—could play a crucial role in achieving that. It’s so counterintuitive and yet, once you see it, so obvious. In the end, says Gladstein, it won’t be the United Nations or rich philanthropists that electrifies Africa “but an open-source software network, with no known inventor, and controlled by no company or government.”

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Bitcoin Brought Electricity to Countries in the Global South

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Shook my farmer's hand today. Result? Plenty of locally sourced meat ready for the freezer #nostrgram #carnivore #winter #farmers #sustainableliving #meatstr

Peak fucking fiat. Imagine NOT sleeping with socks, lol? https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/sleep-tips-wear-socks-to-bed-benefits-5d99a2c3

OK, shitting on MSM journos with _zero_ clue about bitcoin is an old gig, but still. How can somebody STILL IN 2023 state these things with a serious face? - "The median fee leapt to more than $5 over the past week, even as transaction sizes plunged, **an insane cost to pay for something invented as a payment method.**" - "Skeptics of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have had their prejudices reinforced. The **two main use cases—fraud and crime—have been exposed** to the public in dramatic fashion" - Inflation-hedge BUSTED bc during 2021-23 monetary mismanaged BTC _fell_ in price. - "Bitcoin has failed to live up to its original promise of being cheap online cash, but crypto keeps on reinventing itself. It’s so technically satisfying that it must be the solution to something, but quite what remains a mystery." What a schmuck. https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-guilty-plea-shows-what-cryptos-really-about-f84200a3

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