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Daniel Batten
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dsbatten 1 year ago
“For one who wears shoes, the whole world is paved with leather” ~ Yoga Vasistha
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dsbatten 1 year ago
Success Nerds has just done a good independent appraisal of Bitcoin mining in a nuanced, well researched piece. Recommended
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dsbatten 1 year ago
18% of Ethiopian Electric Power’s revenue now comes from (previously wasted hydro-powered) Bitcoin mining image
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dsbatten 1 year ago
Supply shock news Since mid-Nov MARA and RIOT have raised 2.2M between them to buy Bitcoin Looking at the data across different mining companies and comparing their HODL/buy strategies, the Bitcoin mining network will likely flip from net distributors to net acquirers of bitcoin within the next 12 months. (Although on the current trajectory it could happen sooner). Probably nothing.
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dsbatten 1 year ago
Issue #22 of the Bitcoin ESG Forecast is out now Check your emails and spam filters www.batcoinz.com/p/could-pension-funds-fuel-a-bull-run image
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dsbatten 1 year ago
Nostr is rebellion against soft-core censorship A social media algorithm works by stealth, nontransparent yet all-pervasive. It is an online social credit system, rewarding our adherence to the swimlane of our core social identity, penalizing exploration of our other dimensions not with fines or overt punishment but with the sound of crickets. Movement outside that swimlane, self-exploration or investigation of themes our inherently multidimensional self are rewarded with the soft-core censorship. It’s not that certain messages are switched off, more that an invisible hand turns down the volume that the ear of others can nearly hear. Soft-core censorship is as insidious as actual censorship because, through its subtlety, it often skips unnoticed. Nostr represents rebellion against the very notion of a single core identity or personality beyond which we are invisibly encouraged not to stray, explore or honor. There is no hidden agenda to keep you on the app. No punishment for linking to links outside the app, nor of speaking about things for which you are not “known” It is imperfect, new, raw, intimate in ways good and bad, like the bulletin boards of the early 90s. But for all it’s teething pains, I believe it’s rebellion against soft-core censorship is as valuable as it’s rebellion against censorship and centralization itself.
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dsbatten 1 year ago
One of my clients coaches the CEOs and leadership teams of brand name companies and also a state governor. Last week he came to Costa Rica for three day to do some intensive one on one work with me. He had a list of plans to work through, but my intuition was telling me “Nah. He doesn’t know it, but what he needs is some breathwork.” So we spent 80% of the time on the breathwork and then afterwards he found he knew most of the answers on his year planning anyway, so we just crystallised a few things. We just got on a debrief call I asked how his week had been. He said this: “My meditations are more intense, deeper, and can go into it faster. I'm calmer. It's like everything has a new color in the world and My perceptions with other people are heightened. I can notice energy when someone's energy is "off" but I also feel free from the need to try to change that.. When someone in my team didn't complete a job the way I'd intended I found I didn't feel let down or angry or disappointed any more, I could see my part better too - where I hadn't communicated clearly. I knew what to do so that we corrected things without him feeling he'd failed. It's strange, it's like I'm trying to understand my new superpower. People have been asking me "Aren't your tired?" I have been telling everyone "No I'm so energized! Even after after 4 back to back long flights."” I’ve been teaching breathwork using SKY breathing (Art of Liviing) and I never get tired of hearing feedback like this. Breathwork and meditation is a lot like bitcoin. Most people don’t use it, most people don’t think they need it, most people are looking for solutions around the edges without seeing the root cause, but it’s the best of its kind.
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