I'd love your help with something Recently I’ve been researching new stories about bitcoin adoption: original interviews, content and messages about how bitcoin is being used that we can share with people who have not yet seen the value of bitcoin. These real human stories help show the faces of bitcoin to the 97% of bitcoin’s future adopters. Unlike the environmental merits of Bitcoin, with the humanitarian merits the "enemy" is not misinformation, but simply lack of awareness. The way to overcome this is simple: share inspiring stories Each month, I'll be sharing a (free) story in my newsletter. The first one is here👇 www.batcoinz.com/p/038-bitcoins-value-explained-by-a It's about how a Somalian refugee accidentally turned a skeptical US former Peace Corps worker into an avid supporter of Bitcoin, before she'd even had the chance to use it herself! Please share these stories widely. Especially to the 97% Thank you!

Bitcoin mining is the only way to solve this environmental problem at scale that doesn’t need govt subsidies

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Top Renewable Energy state Rajasthan facing 48% curtailment in peak hours That’s 48% of its electricity wasted by not mining bitcoin.

Bitcoin Adoption Forecast newsletter #36 is out Check your email and spam filters * The Bitcoin Adoption Forecast is a paid sub monthly letter about the behind-the-scenes Bitcoin adoption story you won't read on Bitcoin twitter or in the media. I wrote it for people who want to help change Bitcoin history, rather than watch it. If that's you, please consider a sub. You can opt out at any time. This letter has now become a meaningful part of the reason I'm able to spend as much time doing Bitcoin advocacy work as I have. By subscribing, you're helping support this work. www.batcoinz.com/p/a-good-hard-kick-in-the-pants

* New podcast * Nik Bhatia and I discussed new research from Digital Assets Research Institute (www.da-ri.org) supported by HRF showing >329,000 refugees have traveled across borders carrying Bitcoin. We discuss how the report is helping change the way policymakers & regulators see Bitcoin YouTube: Fountain:

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Total Bitcoin ETF flows are currently at $55 Billion. To give an idea how tiny that is, Norway's Sovereign Pension Fund GPFG has $1.9Trillion AUM. When they act on Larry Fink's advice of a 3% allocation to Bitcoin, they will have $57Billion Bitcoin exposure, eclipsing the entire value of all EFTs cumulative into Bitcoin.

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Institutions and Big Banks Dominating Crypto Narratives, While Cypherpunk Ethos Retreats

Large financial institutions are driving all the mainstream crypto narratives and will continue to do so in the future, according to a fintech exec...

Once Sovereign Funds, Pension Funds and Family Offices start allocating in earnest, then the real needle-moving stuff starts happening on the financial side. We are still so early.

I've done three online sessions for friends and acquaintances interested in knowing more about bitcoin. Most of them now have bitcoin. I love getting messages like this from them: "Be more I study it the more I see it as a technology to assist in solving so many of the world's issues ... hence I'm at peace if it goes to zero as it's a vote for the people and planet and peace. I'm looking to start moving more of my time and energy into it. I want to be part of the solution."

Bitcoin has not been declared dead since Finance "journalist" Rafi Farber's hilarious eulogy in April 2024 We may need an obituary for Bitcoin obituaries.

Some would intepret this chart as saying "use your smart phone less" I'd interpret it as saying "use your meditation cushion more" When you have a clear mind, you make better choices about where to spent time, and the smart phone naturally gets used less

Why in almost 30 years has the world made very little progress towards the elimination of the environmentally harmfully practice of flaring? In a new article, I argue that at least part of the problem has been activist environmental organizations whose actions inadvertantly perpetuate the very practices they seek to end. Meanwhile, Bitcoin mining companies are making considerable (and largely unreported) strides towards ending the practice of flaring because they are the only group who has worked out how to do it profitably

How Ideologically-Driven Environmental NGOs Have Hindered the Phase-Out of Gas Peaker Plants – Batcoinz

Do we need a better example of why we should separate money from State? UK Govt thinking of trading its bitcoin for Pound sterling. Like living in Venezuela and trading USD for the Bolívar Imagine rushing to do get in on an asset that had lost 99.15% of its value since 2017

Rare photos of Bitcoin mining in Bhutan Amazing how a tiny land footprint, no eWaste (all rigs are recycled), no water footprint + 100% renewable energy just contributed 40% of Bhutan's GDP, funds environmental and infrastructure initiatives such as their airport rebuild. They even used Bitcoin to raise the salaries of govt workers by 50-65% Any country with surplus energy can copy from Bhutan's playbook, but I'm happy its nations like Bhutan, El Salvador, Paraguay, Ethiopia who are discovering this first because it's helping to address global wealth inequality one nation at a time.

Bitcoin mining in Ethiopia has now boosted the State Owned Electricity utility's revenue by $55 Million (18% of its annual revenue) Ethiopian Tribune reports that Bitcoin mining achieves this by "monetising surplus energy" (energy that would otherwise have been wasted) and that "this revenue has been strategically reinvested into infrastructure development ... where Bitcoin mining profits fund the expansion of transmission lines and distribution networks." These transmission lines help to bring much needed electricity to rural Ethiopians who often experience energy poverty. The Tribune reports that rural electricity access "remained at just 43% in 2021". Bitcoin mining provides a path to raise that percentage through accelerating the buildout of new transmission lines.

You can do a lot of bitcoin mining with 50GW of wasted power. “India's stranded renewable power capacity - projects awarded but unable to come online - more than doubled over nine months, due to unfinished transmission lines, and legal and regulatory delays, letters from an industry group to the government showed. Renewable projects that won tenders to generate power but are yet to sign power purchase agreements with buyers have surged to over 50 gigawatts (GW)” Source: Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/indias-stranded-renewable-projects-double-over-50-gw-industry-documents-show-2025-08-01/

Nostr first project update: our latest readings from a landfill that we're looking to finance a bitcoin mining project just came through. You can see from the satellite report, it is estimated to be emitting 1.535 tonnes of methane every hour. The landfill owner approached us because there is no other potential user for that power and it is not an option to sell the power to the grid, meaning that onsite bitcoin mining is his only economically feasible option. It will also pay him money for the power generated. Because methane is 84x more warming over a 20-year period than CO2, at 90% uptime that means we can mitigate ~1.02 Million tonnes of CO2e every year. Another 30 similarly sized projects, and Bitcoin mining becomes an emission-negative network. * and ... because the project generates not only PE-style returns through equipment financing, but carbon credits it also has an asymetrically good risk:reward for wholesale investors. Onwards!

In its blog today, IMF just penned some 2021vintage energy FUD about Bitcoin "Bitcoin uses as much energy as <insert your favorite country>" Mainstream media and the scientific community no longer use this claim. Why? Because it is a known misleading statistic. Much of Bitcoin's energy usage is from stranded, wasted sources that others cannot utilize. It has also been shown in 22 peer reviewed papers and 7 independent studies to stabilize and decarbonize grids, mitigate methane and lower electricity prices and is 52.4% sustainably powered (unlike the much lower sustainable power mix of the banking industry, and gold mining - which Bitcoin provides viable and technologically superior alternatives to) source:

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The list keeps growing! There are now 20 peer reviewed articles showing Bitcoin has significant environmental benefits. 1. How Bitcoin Can Supp...

Contrary to the implications of this tweet, Bitcoin has 19 well documented usecases that create value to society. source:

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19 benefits of Bitcoin that most people have never heard about... Note: these are not hypothetical, or isolated benefits - but existing uses that ...

Important context: Bitcoin threatens IMF with disintermediation in 5 ways which I have categorized previously here -->

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Why is the IMF so critical of Bitcoin? Why was the IMF so intent on imposing strict anti-Bitcoin conditions over El Salvador? Simple. Bitcoin rep...

and IMF has a reputation for openly opposing Bitcoin, repeatedly citing "concerns" that have consistently failed to materialize. (source:

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How The IMF Prevents Global Bitcoin Adoption (And Why They Do It)

IMF loans halt nation-state Bitcoin plans—only debt-free countries like Bhutan push forward. Grassroots use still thrives.

Its perspective on Bitcoin is neither neutral nor objective.

Bitcoin heat recycling is now recognized both in the energy sector and independent reports as a way to efficiently deliver electrical heat in a low carbon manner "Bitcoin mining can be a practical way of cutting carbon and costs while keeping communities warm" Source: District Energy, Q3 Report 2025 Context: Two months after Cambridge released a study showing the decarbonizing potential of Bitcoin mining, District Energy released is 3rd Quarter Report, and the entire issue is dedicated to using Datacenters, including Bitcoin mining, as a heat source. Key quotes: "Electrifying heat production, especially in regions with low-carbon or renewable electricity, offers one of the most direct and effective ways to reduce emissions from district heating. Using the heat generated from bitcoin mining could significantly advance this electrification, transforming digital energy infrastructure into a source of high-temperature, low-carbon heat." The report specifically mentions the work of @MARA , who are now using Bitcoin mining to supply heat to 80,000 residents in Finland (1.6% of the total population) "MARA estimate that each MW of recycled heat from bitcoin mining results in 455 fewer metric tons of CO2 emissions per year than the average district heating facility in Finland." This is just one of the ways that Bitcoin mining has been found to reduce carbon emissions and cut energy costs at the same time. For a full report on other ways that Bitcoin achieves these two aims, you can read my full length report. (Link in the comments) source: https://districtenergy-digital.org/districtenergy/library/page/q3_2025/32/

Some of the most breakthrough environmental work I’ve seen is being done either by the Art of Living foundation (restored countless waterways in India) or by Bitcoiners. Most ecological restoration projects are unsustainable … financially because they are philanthropic and rely on people giving more and more each year. Ecologist, veteran and Bitcoiner Kriss Scioneaux has found an innovative way to change that, using bitcoin.

There’s a video that recently went out about bitcoin mining in Granbury. It got 1.4Million YouTube views and contained a significant amount of misinformation. The environmental FUD hasn’t stopped, it’s just morphed. Here’s by dissection of what i would call propaganda-dressed-up-as-journalism.

FACT and FICTION in Bitcoin MINING &#8220;Reporting&#8221; &#8211; Batcoinz