The Bitcoiners I coach have had some outstanding wins of late 1. Raising capital from Tim Draper 2. Not only securing meetings with, but influencing parties on the political left, center and right in France to all adopt pro-Bitcoin positions 3. Others of my clients have recently met with the prime ministers of two nations, and the energy minister of another one to further energy policies that explicitly include Bitcoin mining 4. Delivering 14MW of ASICS to stabilize the grid of Sweden ... and so the list goes on The coach often gets the credit for these wins, but there is something else at play that is less obvious, but arguable even more powerful. It's a concept every Bitcoiner intuitively understands already: your peers Let me give you an example. One of my clients doubled his sales win. I didn't coach him on a single sales principle. What happened was much more effortless, and much more sustainable. He stopped doing things that were reducing the likelihood of sales (talking too much, being attached to an outcome) He was able to do that because (in his words) "I've been meditating every day for the last 2 weeks" He did that because (in his words) he was inspired by the win one of his peers on the group had around running 213km in a month, and used the same principles his peer had used to make his running habit stick, to make his meditation habit stick. When you're surrounded by people who are committed to being the best version of themselves, even if the actual things they do are different to you, you end up taking on the best of them also. If you are part of a group that has been specially curated for commitment, growth mindset, and the ability to give and receive in a group setting, you take on the best habits of from the best examples of those habits That's why the two things that most consistently happen in the 10-week groups I run are - people undergo ~10 years of personal and professional development in 10 weeks - people make friends for life Most of them continue on to the year long mastermind, because having experienced the personal, behavioral and commercial value of being in a group of elite peers - they don't want to go back to how they used to try to achieve goals. I don't blame them. Trying to achieve goals without the best peer group is like trying to fill a bath with the plug out: you may still succeed for long enough to achieve your objective, but it takes a lot more time and resources than is necessary. I'm running one more 10-week block this year and have a couple of places left. If you think this might be for you, reach out.

I'm biased because Luke is one of my clients, but I'd say this anyway - this is the most uplifting Bitccoin podcast I've heard this year. A reproducable story about how a couple have orangepilled their local community, using the principles of game, service-mindset and hope.

JUST IN: Bitcoin is now 59.4% sustainably powered 🥇Higher than any reported global industry ⬆️Up 7.0% since last Cambridge survey 14 months ago 🌊Largest power source: hydro Source: Cambridge 2026

The "waste of energy" argument doesn't survive a cold one.

"El Salvador is Bitcoin country" was largely a very good marketing pitch "The nation states are coming" was hopium. "6 of the largest energy companies in Brazil are now actively evaluating Bitcoin to monetize their stranded energy" is real You are looking in the wrong place for evidence of Bitcoin adoption. Energy is the stealth-bomber in Bitcoin's adoption story.

Mainstream media has a negative:positive news reporting ratio of 9.1: 1 Source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28110/w28110.pdf But when the subject is Bitcoin mining, the negativity ratio is order of magnitude higher. This, in one image, is why many people still believe Bitcoin mining has a negative environmental impact, even though the data, 30 peer reviewed papers, Cambridge's current reporting and 100s of real life case studies say the opposite.

It is my duty to remind you that Bitcoin will use all the world's power by 2020.

I’ve been investing into technology companies since 2004, and working in tech startups since I was an early employee at a startup who was first to use the Internet for utility billing in 1996. The 3 technologies with the most use-cases and the most potential value to humanity I’ve seen in that time are The Internet, Bitcoin and AI … with plenty of air until the next grouping. The difference is that with Bitcoin, the ratio of positive to negative uses of the technology is much higher - inherently it is order of magnitude harder to use Bitcoin for crime than traditionally currencies, but the social and environmental usecases for the technologies are significant, supported by many peer reviewed studies, and growing each year. That, combined with the fact Bitcoin, unlike any technology I've seen, is benefitting the Global South at scale before it is benefitting the West, make it the most promising technology for social and environmental justice I've seen in a generation.

I'm seriously geeking out on this image right now. You can now use AI to help transform the 2nd-most recognizable part of you: your voice. OK, some context. Years ago I wrote a book on pitching. But it is really a book about any sort of situation where you seek to influence someone (like helping Bitcoin adoption through orangepilling). I use the principles myself when changing people's minds about the Bitcoin and energy, and I also teach it to clients, who have a 91.1% success rate with their investment pitches (Industry average is apparently 10.4%, so seems like it works). The book is a manual for improving all elements of influence: message, deliver, tactics and mindset. Unless all are strong, influence is unlikely to occur. I was lucky enough to have spent a lot of my 20s doing acting for stage and TV, so I learnt how to improve delivery during those years and teach it to others. But I've never had a tool to objectively show people that their delivery has improved. Now I do. This is just a snippet of a more extensive analysis that also gets quite technical with difference aspects of voice resonance. This client was someone I'd worked with previously to win his seed investment, but he came to me because when approaching seed-SeriesA he was getting feedback that his delivery was flat from his own team, and he agreed. They were right! So we did a solid 2 months of voicework, and the harsh objective lens of AI is now saying his monotone is not only gone, but he's now speaking in the dynamic range. Voicework has always tended to be something that felt subjective, but now thanks to AI it is appealing to analytical people who like the data too We are only just beginning to tap the potential for AI for self-improvement.

This analysis is not something I did after the fact to justify how good bitcoin mining is for the enviroment, this is the analysis I did after running 2 climatetech funds and asking "what type of technology can we invest in that will maximize emissions reduced per dollar" The answer: Bitcoin mining projects using the stranded vented methane coming out of half the world's landfills.

Arguably the biggest problem in Bitcoin adoption as that those who have adopted Bitcoin don't know how to talk about Bitcoin Which is why things like this are great!

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Texas has begun replacing its most flexible load with its most inflexible one. Hmmm.

Bitcoin payments are not only the fastest to settle (instant) and the lowest fees, they are also the most enviromentally friendly. When you choose visa etc over Bitcoin/lightning, you are choosing a network that is slow, dirty and expensive over one that is instant, clean and fair.

Monarchies (like Bhutan and UAE) like Bitcoin so much? Ironically, because they are authocratic and centralized they can make decisions very fast that benefit their people, rather than their own chance of re-election.

How a nuclear meltdown catalyzed Bitcoin Mining in Japan

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How a Nuclear Meltdown catalyzed Bitcoin mining in Japan

The obvious story the media reports on: "AI solves Bitcoin miners' revenue problem." The less obvious and more interesting story they're not reporting: "AI solves Bitcoin miners' exit problelm" More interesting because it opens up Bitcoin mining companies to something no investor has been keen on til now: equity investment. ... and that has all sorts of consequences not just for Bitcoin mining, but for Bitcoin itself.

Contrary to what you read about Bitcoin mining, the sector has in my view never been such a good asymmetric bet to investors In fact, AI just made Bitcoin mining investible again. Exhibit A: our own financing company, CH4Capital, which specializes in Bitcoin mining projects on landfills, is considering equity positions in Bitcoin mining companies for the first time since 2022. This is the subject of my latest newsletter:

AI just made Bitcoin mining investable again

In the past fortnight two Bitcoin miners signed long-term leases with AI companies. CleanSpark took a 20-year deal worth $6.6 billion in Georgia. T...

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One hemisphere is switching flexible load on. The other is leasing it away Brazil, July 1: Sugarcane mill starts mining Bitcoin on bagasse power (the 5th Brazilian energyco to do so) Georgia: CleanSpark signs 20-year, $6.6B AI lease AI is inflexible demand. Mining is flexible

Four of Brazil's biggest power generators are now evaluating or piloting Bitcoin mining to monetise the renewable power they currently waste. They are Brazil's largest * electricity generator - Already operating (Axia) * private generator. Actively evaluating (Engie) * wind developer, building a bitcoin mine this year (Casa dos Ventos) * centralized solar generator - actively evaluating (Atlas Renewable Energy) Probably nothing

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!