weezel 2 years ago

New Daniel Batten article 📄 „what I and other environmentalists were led to believe was the villain, turns out to be the good guy“

Blockworks

Want to help save the planet? Mine bitcoin

Opinion: Bitcoin was supposed to be the villain for environmentalists — but I believe it just might be the good guy.

weezel 2 years ago

CO2e emissions declined 38% in past 2 years 👀 4x Hashrate while same CO2e emissions in past 3.75 years 👀

weezel 2 years ago

but it uses so much energy!! - 121 TWh/a -> for a global payment network that millions of people use & secures billions of dollars in value Bitcoin is more economical than gold as a store of value & much more economical than the payment network of banks

Bitcoin Sozial

Klimakiller Bitcoin

Wenn man der FAZ und seiner Quelle Alex de Vries Glauben schenkt, ist Bitcoin ein “Klimakiller”. Ein Killer? Wie der Terminator? Die Killermasc...

weezel 2 years ago

A big German Newspaper & Alex de Vries say: Bitcoin is a “climate killer”! …A killing machine like the T-800 sent to relentlessly hunt & kill Sarah Connor. …Really!? Weezel took a closer look at the numbers in a German article for bitcoinsozial👇 Spoiler: Bitcoin is the T-800

Bitcoin Sozial

Klimakiller Bitcoin

Wenn man der FAZ und seiner Quelle Alex de Vries Glauben schenkt, ist Bitcoin ein “Klimakiller”. Ein Killer? Wie der Terminator? Die Killermasc...

weezel 2 years ago

A big German Newspaper & Alex de Vries say: Bitcoin is a “climate killer”! …A killing machine like the T-800 sent to relentlessly hunt & kill Sarah Connor. …Really!? Weezel took a closer look at the numbers in a German article for bitcoinsozial👇 Spoiler: Bitcoin is the T-800 https://bitcoinsocial.de/Klimakiller-Bitcoin/

weezel 2 years ago

Die FAZ & Alex de Vries sagen: Bitcoin ein “Klimakiller”! Eine Killermaschine wie der T-800, die geschickt wurde, um Sarah Connor unerbittlich zu jagen & zu töten. Really!? Weezel hat sich die Zahlen genauer angesehen 👇 Spoiler: Bitcoin ist der T-800

Bitcoin Sozial

Klimakiller Bitcoin

Wenn man der FAZ und seiner Quelle Alex de Vries Glauben schenkt, ist Bitcoin ein “Klimakiller”. Ein Killer? Wie der Terminator? Die Killermasc...

weezel 2 years ago

scientific paper printer goes brrr „Overall, the paper suggests a re-evaluation of the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, highlighting its potential role as a facilitator for renewable energy expansion, and decarbonization“ https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/14/3/35

weezel 2 years ago

Via their nonce fingerprint, it’s apparently possible to identify miner generations and determine their share of the hashrate. cool 😮 and very useful for calculating ₿ energy use

X (formerly Twitter)

karim helmy (@karimhelpme) on X

We see that XPs are starting to pick up despite a slow start (due to mispricing at launch and hardware failures) S9s have finally dropped below de...

weezel 2 years ago

“They couldn’t take anything with them – no money, no gold, not even a mobile phone. Anything valuable would have been a serious threat to their life,” https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/07/05/how-bitcoin-helps-civilians-escape-the-war-in-sudan/

weezel 2 years ago

Bavaria just seized two banking accounts of the German climate activist group and „criminal association” named Letzte Generation. Who stopped accepting ₿ donations a while ago. Now they learn.

weezel 2 years ago

Dear leftist, monetary expansion is a tool for redistribution. And not the good kind. The diametral opposite. Learn the basic mechanisms. - another leftist

weezel 2 years ago

46:15 @ 780,000

weezel 2 years ago

If you plug in an electric vehicle it becomes a “zero emissions” car If you plug in a Bitcoin miner it’s a “climate catastrophe”

weezel 2 years ago

While Bitcoins spot price is volatile, its energy consumption is anti-volatile and price smoothing 💸🔋🪫💵 💡

weezel 2 years ago

Canary Media

Chart: Who's the leader in utility-scale solar — California or Texas?

After several years running of massive solar capacity buildouts, the Lone Star State is rapidly gaining ground on the long-established renewables l...

The fossil fueled Texas stereotype is under attack! Go Ercot 💪🏼

weezel 2 years ago

Contrary to a Cambridge University study, Bitcoin mining leverages 52.6% sustainable energy

Bitcoin Magazine

The Majority Of Bitcoin Mining Is Fueled By Sustainable Energy

Contrary to a Cambridge University study, Bitcoin mining leverages 52.6% sustainable energy, making it an appealing ESG investment.

weezel 2 years ago

AML doesn’t even work! - AML policy intervention has less than 0.1% impact on criminal finances - compliance costs exceed recovered criminal funds more than 100x - banks, taxpayers and ordinary citizens are penalized more than criminal enterprises https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1725366