"Bitcoin miners returned enough power to heat 1.5 million homes during Texas blizzard" "… this amount of energy would’ve been enough to heat “over 1.5 million small homes or keep 300 large hospitals fully operational” during the polar vortex …" 🔥🔥🔥

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Bitcoin miners returned enough power to heat 1.5 million homes during Texas blizzard

After Texas electricity operator introduced the Interim Voluntary Load Curtailment program, Bitcoin miners have risen to the occasion.

"I'm convinced that when you have an asset which is encouraging the saving as oppose to spending because it's a deflationary asset, that of course it's gonna change human behavior." Daniel Batten with #[0] on "Powering #Bitcoin". https://btcpodcasting.com/@poweringbitcoin/episodes/studying-bitcoin-electricity-use

The freedom of Julian #Assange is the freedom of all of us.

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"Julian Assange is not only one of the few authentic heroes of our time, he has also shown all of us how to be a hero today. That it is possible to...

It's a science. "Can #Bitcoin Stop Climate Change? Proof of Work, Energy Consumption and Carbon Footprint (SoK)" by J. I. Ibañez and A. Freier. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4347220

#Bitcoin energy FUD is a religion.

Your best teacher is your last mistake. (Richard Feynman)

Is it already possible to zap with Damus (without TestFlight)? I don't see the icon - or is it related to the Lightning address? Thank you! 🙏💜

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„Cobalt mining involves one of the worst forms of (child) slavery the world has ever experienced.“ In an exciting interview, Nathaniel Harmon and #[0] discuss how #Bitcoin mining can promote ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC). https://btcpodcasting.com/@poweringbitcoin/episodes/Oceanenergybitcoin

OTEC? In an exciting interview, Nathaniel Harmon and #[0] discuss how #Bitcoin mining can promote ocean thermal energy conversion. https://btcpodcasting.com/@poweringbitcoin/episodes/Oceanenergybitcoin

For all #Bitcoin proof-of-work skeptics: listen to the science! "Hedging renewable energy investments with Bitcoin mining" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032120308054 "Can Bitcoin Stop Climate Change? Proof of Work, Energy Consumption and Carbon Footprint (SoK)" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4347220