Just in:
Daniel Batten
Dsbatten@nostrich.love
npub13lky...lpsy
I like turning waste into power. Landfill gas. Eroding currencies. The human potential.
danielbatten.co
Issue 11 of The Bitcoin ESG Forecast: The Money Shot, is out now.
Check your email and spam folders www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-010-the-money-shot 
Just put up a 99-second short video about my new project.
All constructive feedback welcome.
Elizabeth Warren and community notes: a natural match
A new FUD-busting video has just been released
This is a good one to share with those new to bitcoin mining. Particularly those who may have been influenced by a report by GreenpeaceUSA that was full of errors.
It objectively & unantagonistically outlines the mistakes GreenpeaceUSA make in their position on bitcoin mining
The presenter is Roger Detente (@CapCrafterUS on X)
I’ve just launched a new geyser fund project.
What do you think. Is this something valuable? Are there other things you’d like me to be working on that would be valuable to bitcoin as a whole?
Whether it’s ideas, encouragement or contributions to a project - everything makes a difference.
Bitcoin Crowdfunding for New Ideas and Humanitarian Causes | Geyser
Geyser helps people launch new Bitcoin project ideas and fund humanitarian causes worldwide, accelerating adoption through transparent crowdfunding.
Bitcoin mining is to energy independence as Bitcoin is to monetary independence
The Bitcoin ESG Forecast #10 is now out
Featuring: Nation state mining profits eclipsing El Salvador's profits from their Bitcoin investment strategy.
www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-010-the-rise-of-nation-state https://
“If you wish to discover new lands you must be prepared to lose sight of the shore for a very long time”
Hey nostriches, I need your help with some advice.
After 2 years doing my best to counter bitcoin FUD pretty much full time I’ve run out of financial gas to keep doing this.
Wouldn’t be an issue except I have a family and I’m the sole income earner. CH4Capital will eventually pay me something, but at what point is uncertain. Infrastructure deployment on landfills takes a long time and we are still at the site identification stage. I’m fortunate that we do have investments in early stage tech companies that are going well - but no liquidity likely for 4-5 years.
My options seem to be
A. Sell some of our modest stack believing that’ll tide us over to when CH4Capital gets up and running
B. Get a real job - within the bitcoin ecosystem. I’m very grateful that there are a couple of options here.
C. Attempt to get my newsletter to a stage that it’s paying something decent (seems the least feasible option, as it currently turns over four figures p.a).
D. Something that’s staring me in the face but I’m too blind to see it.
Appreciate your thoughts on this.
8 years ago this was the work I was 100% focused on.
Sharing here because Nostr seems to be the only platform that is unattached whether you
1. Link tonight social media platforms
2. Post about other things you care about that aren’t what you’re “known for”
Would love to hear from some others here on nostr what else you care about that you’re not known for
Bitcoin adoption is happening as slowly as the Internet
Chart: @Sam Baker from the book TheRevolutionofMoney.com 
nostr:npub1eac7gevgcckemgvxkkd6karqxh76anfp43k7kr5fnwzjryghf9vs6muf67itcoin adoption is happening as slowly as the Internet
Chart: @Sam Baker
Why to tech companies fail? The data tells us that 65% of the reasons are human-centric.
Before I started writing about Bitcoin I did a lot of work analysing this in depth and developing solutions to it. Sharing it here in case you’re a founder and can identify with one of more of these 23 reasons. 
Loved everything about this chance to chat with
@walker . If you listen closely you’ll see just how adept he is at fostering unity-in-diversity within the Bitcoin community. View quoted note →
General rule for effective Bitcoin FUD:
1. use a healthy distribution of these 3 techniques.
- Value judgement presented as fact
- Outright Falsehoods
- Somewhat true but misleading due to withheld context
2. Keep the number of proveable falsehoods below 50%
3. Make simple, true sounding claims that aren’t
4. Exploit people’s ignorance. Energy illiteracy for example is a field of opportunity for seeing the seeds of FUD
5. Where possible, incite moral outrage through
6. Use Brandolini’s Law to your advantage. The higher the bullshit per sentence ratio, the greater the chance that some bullshit will stick.
JUST IN: Norway passes anti-datacenter legislation, becoming the first country in Europe to legalize discrimination based on use-of-power
"The purpose is to regulate the industry in such a way that we can close the door on the projects we do not want"
Cointelegraph
Norway passes data center legislation signaling more scrutiny for Bitcoin miners
The mining industry in Norway has been largely unregulated up to this point, according to the country
I’m now working with Elvis Gwaro, an online journalist from Kenya who is writing parts of the newsletter together with me.
Great story behind this
1. I pay him a share of the profits from the newsletter in Bitcoin using lightning. It’s not a lot, but it’s a promising start. Here’s what he told me he’d have to go through if we didn’t. (TLDR: fees, delays and discrimination)
“with Paypal there's always the risk of my account being limited or suspended for reasons best known to the PayPal lords. If I was to receive a significant amount from abroad, for instance, $2,000, yet my account typically transacts less than $500, Paypal will halt my account and request me to explain where the money is coming from.
Their anti-money-laundering measures often flag people who are doing legit online businesses, especially Africans. I have more than 5 friends who had their accounts suspended for 6 months before they could get their money, despite explaining to Paypal where the money came from.
So yes, Bitcoin makes things waaaay easier.
Then there’s fees. Paypal charges a currency exchange fee between 3% to 5%. If you send $100, I'll receive $100 in my paypal account. I think you'll incur a transaction cost on your side too.
If I want to withdraw the $100 from my account, Paypal will give me an exchange rate that factors in the exchange fee. So for instance, currently the USD dollar exchanges for Ksh 130. Paypal will probably offer me between Ksh 124 and Ksh 126. So I only get between $95 - $97 of the $100 and that's how they make bank from that transaction. It's a big fee.”
2. He originally wrote an article that was well written, but FUD-filled about “6 technologies greener than bitcoin”. I respectfully challenged him. Unlike most journalists I’ve challenged he was more curious to learn than to save face, and started asking questions. Long story short, he realised Bitcoin is good for the environment and write so in his next article.
3. He had the idea of making a payment for the newsletter voluntary. And it worked. Plenty of people got behind the newsletter and started paying a modest amount, that now is helping to support me to do deeper research than I’d otherwise have time for and is really helping Elvis as he looks to see if he can make a living out of writing about and researching bitcoin for online magazines and newsletters.
2 ways you can support him that’ll be a potential win-win for you as well.
If you have a newsletter and want someone to write parts, he’s incredibly good: takes on feedback faster than most and produces high quality content. If you’re thinking of a newsletter but don’t want the burden of writing it all, he can help.
And of course to shill our newsletter, every subscriber to that is helping him towards his goal of escaping the fiat economy and live on the orange side. He’s within reach already.