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 ...

Business Insider Africa

Meet the founder backed by Jack Dorsey using Bitcoin mining to provide cheaper electricity in Africa

In rural Africa, Walton spotted a hidden resource, stranded renewable energy, and imagined a way to turn it into both profit and impact

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.

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

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

#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

When good signals go bad

For years, it was widely known that you went to Bitcoin Twitter for the top analysis, not to Forbes and mainstream media. But recently on Twitter ...

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 @jack 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.

One of the most revolutionary concepts about leadership in 121 seconds!

In June last year, I was commissioned to write a report on if BTC mining companies should pivot into HPC/AI TL;DR - yes, but with some nuances It had an 18month embargo on it, but is now available to everyone. Some things are out of date, but hopefully still useful Enjoy!

Google Docs

BTC and HPC - which game to play, when

BTC and HPC Where each makes sense, where the risks lie and what most HPC companies overlook Daniel Batten Note: Intel from this document include...

Imagine waking up to find the money you’ve saved for decades is worthless, because your government decreed overnight it was no longer legal tender This happened to Win Ko Ko Aung. Bitcoin literally changed his life. He tells his story in my newsletter 👇

No Country for Old Money

In Issue #019 we saw how 329,000 refugees had used Bitcoin to set up their lives in a new country. After that was released, I got a message from a...

I've seen a lot of people trying to orangepill people unsuccessfully. Many of them are unsuccessful for the same reason: this one!

"Who makes a better boss. The jerk ... or likeable person?" The data is clear, but ...

The Bitcoin environmental impact narrative has changed, and with that one of the big blockers to adoption is gone: with regulators, sovereign funds, nation states, and the general public. How did this happen? Sharing a candid story about this in my latest article 👇

“The Obstacle is the Path” – Batcoinz