Monetary incentives via govt subsidies have not been to get renewable energy energy used, but to get renewable capacity built. Bitcoin mining is now helping to fix the distortion caused by this false signal. At scale!

In case you hadn't noticed, LLMs have now displaced wikipedia, and the world is better for it. Run an AI query on "Bitcoin renewable" now and you will get - an objective appraisal based on the latest 2025 data from the in Bitcoin and ESG (Cambridge University) that is the gold standard for policymakers and regulators - fact and data - a summary of over 30 peer reviewed articles on Bitcoin mining and energy - case studies - input from specialists in the fields of grid stabilization and methane mitigation Run a wikipedia on Bitcoin mining and you will get - citations of historic papers from the 2018-2022 period that were debunked in 2023 by Sai and Vranken - Editorial opinions and narrative - the results of a page curated predominantly by retired sociology professors with an anti-Bitcoin bias No one who understand Bitcoin mining bothers to update it and correct it any more because, in the words of one former editor of that page "I kind of gave up on Wikipedia btw (in general not only for btc). Fewer people using it. The source of truth is now LLMs and not wiki." Wikipedia, once a reliable and independent information source, is now a historical footnote alongside Alta Vista, Encyclopedia Britanica and Kodak. Not only has AI usurped Wikipedia, but it no longer puts much weight on wikipedia when developing its own information synthesis. It's not perfect, but it is a meaningful step up from what we had before.

Just put together my new website. The old one was 6 years out of date and didn't reflect any of my Bitcoin work. It does now! Grateful for 2 things 1. For how Bitcoin has grown me as a person, and ... 2. That we have Nostr, so I can put an external link in a message and not have to endure a 90% derate. Here's the site. The homepage also backlinks to all my Bitcoin&Energy research

Daniel Batten

HOME - DanielBatten.co

Coaching for founders, leaders and Bitcoiners who are hitting the ceiling that ability alone cannot break. The work is subtractive: remove internal...

One trend rarely commented on is that bullrun in ASICS prices didn't happen last cycle An extraordinary development considering how closely ASICS price once mirrored Bitcoin price The mining industry is maturing. CAPEX volatility is gone. Bitcoin mining companies who earn ancillary revenue are doing very well

Don't know how this happened so fast, but suddenly I've coached over 40 Bitcoiners! (this picture is now out of date) I'm a bit overwhelmed by how much they've advanced Bitcoin since. Between them, they're now - they've secured funding (including Tim Draper, Ego Death Capital) - successfully launched 2 new Bitcoin policy institutes - created an in-house solution that stabilizes Sweden's grid - shifted Bitcoin policy through conversations with political leaders and energy ministers in 3 different countries They did this not only because I know something about how to bring out the best in people, but also because Bitcoiners are amazing people and something phenomenal happens when they work as a peer network My vision is to help Bitcoiners become as antifragile as Bitcoin, operate with a full stack of self-belief, while being the change they want to see in the world. You're the average of the 5-6 people you hang out with most often. So the impact on your focus, habits, and self-belief and progress of those people being highly committed Bitcoiners while also having a coach who helps you overcome your blindspots is very net positive for you, and for Bitcoin. If you'd like to find out more, reach out.

The world is, and will continue to embrace Bitcoin's ability to solve an energy problem before it embraces Bitcoin's ability to solve a monetary problem. Because ... incentives.

One Brazilian solar plant wastes enough power to mine an estimated $20-25 million of Bitcoin a year. The whole country's live Bitcoin mining captures just $3 million. Other power producers are now moving to close that gap, a pattern I have not found anywhere else outside the US. In Brazil, as with other countries, Bitcoin is being adopted as an energy solution I cover this in my latest newsletter.

Brazil just made the case for Bitcoin mining that Bitcoiners never could

Five independent generators mining their own wasted power, their securities regulator learning about Bitcoin in parallel, and a pattern I’ve foun...

I coach my clients to go for 10x goal because they are more likely to work than aiming for a 2x goal. Here's what the science says on the subject.

In 5 minutes, this is the remarkable story of why Bitcoin mining is the only economically sustainable solution to the collision of the 2 biggest megatrends in the history of electricity

The bitcoin projects I am most interested in these days are the ones that are agnostic to price action. Thankfully, there are many such projects like that, and they are only growing.

Thank you Lloyds for the free Bitcoin marketing

The best thing about (finally) updating my website was reconnecting with some clients I hadn't coached for five years and asking them to simply say whether there had been an ongoing benefit after the coaching ended and if so what. I was humbled by some of the things that came back, like this one. The exit is nice, but its not the thing that moved me the most. Whatever you do in life, I encourage you to choose a path that minimizes regret and maximizes for legacy you'd be proud of years later.

For 2 years I've run the environmental module on Cambridge's course for digital-asset regulators. Which means the supervisors from 11 G20 economies now know that, by a climate investor's own framework, the no-energy coins - Ethereum, Solana, Cardano - are not climate tech. Bitcoin is the only one that can be.

The research is clear: the intention behind your goal matters more than you think. The surprise is where it lands - it has some bearing on whether you hit the goal, and a much stronger one on what happens next. Let's imagine two people set the same goal: lose 15 kilos. The goal could be anything, but weight loss is so measurable and visible that I'll use it as the example. One motivation is running away from something you don't like in yourself. "I'm lazy. I look terrible. I'm a disgrace." The other is running toward something that inspires you as a latent potential within you. "I want to be strong, and present for my kids in twenty years." In weight-loss trials, autonomous motivation - the "toward" kind - predicted the initial loss and, more tellingly, whether the goal stuck 2 years on. The controlling kind, the drive to fix a flaw, causes adherence to goal for a short time, but here's the kicker: maintenance of the goal once achieved was almost nil. (source:

Client Challenge

It goes deeper. Self-criticism can spark a short burst, then it gives you back shame, and shame produces avoidance (source: https://self-compassion.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/selfimp.motivation.pdf). And as an aside, when the goal is about appearance, even if you reach it, it tends not to make you feel better - the people who feel better are the ones whose intention was to do with health or connection (source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167296223006 ). Even "be there for my family" can be pressure in disguise, if guilt sits underneath it. So don't trust the words of the goal. Instead, notice whether holding it feels like choice or coercion.

A short story about trusting yourself Until 2020 I had a very simple, and very effective website. A homepage, a sparse amount of menu, a video on the homepage and a "let's go" button if people wanted to take the conversation further. The simple, clear, direct message and path typically led to one new coaching client per quarter who found me on the website. Then I met a marketing expert. He told me I was doing it all wrong. "People need to get to know you before they'll connect with you", "There's not enough context, or story about who you are", "And the design is sparse and not warm". I trusted his viewpoint. After all he was a marketing expert. What would I know? We rebuilt the website in what was a long, involved process. The result looked visually appealing and told a far more complete story about who I was. But ... after a year, there had been no new enquiries. after three years, still no new enquiries, let alone clients Six years later, one enquiry off the website and still zero new clients. Here's what he realized: Yes, there are some people who need to "get to know you" before they contact you. But people who take a long time to make decisions have never been my clients. My best clients by results have always been those who have the capacity to implement a new idea fast. I'd just invested money in creating a website that matched my marketing expert's belief about how people buy, not how I already knew my best clients engaged with me. But the mistake was on me. I didn't trust my gut, my own process, and allowed the words of an "expert" to override not just my intuition but my own direct experience. Worse, because I'd "invested so much in building it" I was reluctant to go back and fix it, because that would amount to admitting to an expensive mistake, the real expense being not the initial cost, but the compounding loss of business over a growing period of time as I continued to procrastinate. This year I got real with myself and admitted the mistake, and within a month built a new website. The site follows all the exact same principles that I used until 2020. But it's better because, well, I have done some extra cool things and become a better coach too since then. Here's the finished result if you're curious

Daniel Batten

HOME - DanielBatten.co

Coaching for founders, leaders and Bitcoiners who are hitting the ceiling that ability alone cannot break. The work is subtractive: remove internal...

But the point of the story is this: No matter how much expertise someone has, you are the expert on you. Don't trade that inner knowing for someone else's domain knowledge lightly. You know context they don't, and ignoring that can be expensive.

If someone says to you "Bitcoin is bad for the environment" here's my 2.47min coaching on how to respond. ~95% of Bitcoiners currently don't do this, and it is a simple (and powerful) fix.

"The headwinds Bitcoin faces, the more hills we have to climb, the more rarefied air starved of the oxygen of positive media appraisal - the stronger we become"

Whatever you think about most, you become like that, which is why most revolutions fail. For this reason, be motivated by love of the world you want to create, not hatred of the fiat world which has gone before.

There's a piece in this week's Miner Weekly, from TheEnergyMag, that anyone interested in Bitcoin mining's usefulness to the grid should be aware of

TheEnergyMag

Miner Weekly: Can Flexible AI Load Steal Bitcoin Mining’s Grid Pitch?

Flexible AI load could challenge bitcoin miners’ grid pitch, as early GPU cluster trials show AI data centers may be able to curtail power use, s...

It asks whether flexible AI load can steal Bitcoin mining's grid pitch, and it is a fair, careful piece. It concedes the AI trials are tiny, early, and backed by parties with an interest in the answer, and it acknowledges the nuance that most coverage misses: the flexible part is training, while real-time inference (the part that is growing much faster thanks to AI chat tools) remains non-interruptible. So credit where it is due. AI load is becoming more interruptible, and that is good for grids. Here is the context the article leaves out. Its own best figures are a 30% cut in 40 seconds and 25% for three hours while protecting service levels. Bitcoin mining powers down almost fully in about 0.7 seconds, holds at zero for as long as the grid needs, and does it as hundreds of trillions of independent computations per machine rather than a handful of priority-tiered jobs. It also does not need fibre, so it can sit on stranded gas or curtailed solar where no data centre can follow. And miners were forced to develop all of this out of necessity. The margin on the coins alone is so thin that flexibility became a matter of survival, built over years of real-world operation rather than a single funded pilot. Flexible load is a decathlon. To be a good one, you have to be strong in every event: how fast you power down, how long you stay down, how modular your power-up and power-down are, where you can go, and what it costs to sit idle. AI is training hard to catch up in just one of the events. Bitcoin mining holds the record in all of them except speed-of-power-down, where it is 2nd only to battery. In other words, interruptivle training-AI is a good innovation that will continue to improve, and it is a very very long way from competing as a flexible load consumer with Bitcoin mining.

Big shout-out to Bitcoin Ekasi and Fedimint At the same time that Bitcoin was printing its worst month in four years, a township in Mossel Bay, South Africa was quietly building its own bank using Bitcoin. Bitcoin Ekasi has run a circular economy since 2021: 50 kids in its surf program, their coaches paid 100% in Bitcoin, spending it at local spaza shops. The piece that stayed unsolved was custody. Some members will never manage their own keys, and a custodial app means trusting a company that can freeze or lose their money. So they built community custody with Fedimint. 7 local guardians hold a 5-of-7 multisig and issue eCash that is instant, free, private, and simple enough for non-technical people to use. The people least served by banks now hold sound money with no bank, no exchange, and no key to lose. Why Bitcoin and nothing else? No bank will build rails for a poor township, and the rand keeps eroding what little people can save. Only open, permissionless, fixed-supply money let this community own its financial rails and run them itself. Adoption does not stop when the price falls. In fact, that's when the builders are easiest to see