Daniel Batten

Harvard now has $443Million in BTC exposure They also have a Sustainable Investing Team that capital allocations must pass through They wouldn't have been able to acquire Bitcoin 'til 2024 The changed energy narrative means a raft of new institutions can now purchase Bitcoin

Sustainability magazines just keep on reporting positively on bitcoin mining https://sustainabilityonline.net/news/more-than-half-the-energy-used-to-mine-bitcoin-last-year-was-sustainable/

This trend was in play already, but 2025 was about hastening the retreat Actions: - Negative articles on Bitcoin and energy rebutted: 102 - Letters to authors of those articles: 57 - Letters to researchers who published inaccurate data on Bitcoin mining: 3 - Regulators & Policymakers presented with Bitcoin pro-ESG narrative: 162 Results: - Media outlets still publishing Bitcoin&energy FUD: 5 (down from 41 in 2024) - Retractions of inaccurate articles: 5 - Media who changed their Bitcoin editorial policy: 3

History will likely remember Paul Krugman not as a Nobel economist, but as the guy who said the most important tech of the century was worthless. Twice.

A lot of people in their 40s and 50s realize at some point that the rules they used to create success in their 20s either no longer apply or no longer work (or both) This video is for you! https://blossom.primal.net/eca1b644452915b4f536d5ea4f3f9bb898806d4966c016feb5cdd4f34d91365a.mov

One of the less talked about benefits of Bitcoin mining to local communities is how it reduces electricity prices: a phenomenon observed around the world including, Texas, Norway, and now ... rural Kenya.

Things I enjoy about Nostr #3: If you add an extrernal link to a post on X or LinkedIn, your whole post automatically gets seen by ~10% the number of people. Nostr does not do this! Nostr thereby incentives people to give source links, which improves both quality of the post and the ease of verifying a claim or getting more information. This well-researched piece of media coverage from BusinessInsider shows how Bitcoin mining in Africa "boosts local economies, expands energy access, and lowers electricity costs for communities." And here's the link to the original article ... https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/leaders/meet-the-founder-backed-by-jack-dorsey-using-bitcoin-mining-to-provide-cheaper/0xswxpw

Just wrote to the author of this opinion piece, respectfully pointing out the factual errors and omissions. More often these days I like to start there and give the author a couple of days to respond before making the letter public.

This week, both New Zealand's major banks, ANZ and BNZ, announced the introduction of mandatory device-level surveillance stating: “You will not be able to use our app or internet banking without consenting to this data collection.” To continue to use digital banking, customers must consent to the collection of: * Detailed behavioural biometrics including typing cadence, swipe pressure, scroll patterns, mouse velocity, navigation patterns * Device sensor data * Connected device information * Device motion/tilt data Thank you ANZ, BNZ for the free "why you need Bitcoin self-custody" tutorial.

You can be lonely in a crowd. Of all the people I've coached over the years, CEOs and founders of tech companies have been the ones who consistently reported feeling the loneliest. https://blossom.primal.net/26836842048ce4f73010ffebcc5c7ca343cf801315901441143edf35db6cdeed.mov

Clean raw power converted into heat for re-use, and sound money for everyone, in one thermodynamically efficient process.

SMART goal setting was created by middle managers, not world changing entrepreneurs, and has no empirical data to support that is works Elon Musk recently talked about the importance of setting unrealistic goals (not realistic ones) Here's the mechanics of why this works https://blossom.primal.net/963e916a703b905dace05b16073975b9fbe02ee8008d908f0075bfac153ba143.mov

Over the years I've found that respectfully challenging people while offering information they are probably not aware of is a vastly better strategy to both passive acceptance of an opinion formed in ignorance, or antagonism.

Wrong question: "how do I delegate?" Right question: "what will happen if I don't delegate?" Once you're clear on that, the next part becomes a lot easier https://blossom.primal.net/1593528ae7c76b035450c297fdca01d7d8043f76c8ad507e0b6c2f7f43b4b5d6.mov

#042 of the Bitcoin Adoption Forecast is out: check your email and spam filters * This newsletter looks at Bitcoin price charts, often quoted on Twitter, that are now providing a false price signal and then looks at the impact this has on adoption http://www.batcoinz.com/p/when-good-signals-go-bad

In the last week we've seen 1. Bitcoin payments enabled at more than 4 Million stores worldwide 2. Japan announce that they are using Bitcoin mining to help stabilize the grid so they can place more wind and solar power on it 3. The world's first Central Bank make its first purchase of Bitcoin. Probably nothing.

Yes, don't sell most of your Bitcoin, but remember: your Bitcoin will be worth a lot more if it achieves ubiquity. Cars, the radio, computers, The Internet became ubiquitous because people used them, and saw other people using them. Kinda weird to imagine that the best way to achieve Bitcoin ubiquity is by everyone not using it.

2 weeks after South Africa launched Bitcoin with 650,000 merchants, Bitcoin payments are now available for over 4 million businesses with Square payment terminals. Same vibe as the Internet in 1994: a few users, lots of skeptics, but virtually no skeptics who actually used it.

If you've ever run a retail store, you know what this means. Years ago my wife and I owned a juicebar. The one expense we resented was credit card fees, but we had no alternative. That 1.5-3% fee could be 10% of profit. Thank you nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n and Square. Gamechanging for small business owners

When responding respectfully to a whole bunch of people who had some basic misunderstandings about Bitcoin and energy, I used this principle from my own book. It worked! In this video I outline what it is and why it worked. https://blossom.primal.net/b78e9afe4d375868927e72d7ca8c39679364692101a5e7d9283ae4e4b3191a95.mov