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Matt
codinginlondon@iris.to
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Former finance C++ C# dev writing about the merge of mining into the energy grid 🔋
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CodingInLondon 1 year ago
Beautiful drone view of a new Gridless operation in Kenya. Water is diverted out of the river from a small dam and goes through a buried canal towards 3 turbines a few hundred meters downstream. This is how they extract 150kw out of a small river and provide electricity to the communities nearby. And this is partly financed by busy little ASICs hidden inside green sheds.
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Gridless (@GridlessCompute) on X
Nestled in the tea fields of the Kenyan highlands, our next run of river site is built. Testing begins next week on this 3 turbine, 150kW minigrid.
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CodingInLondon 1 year ago
Il y a tout un dossier en français paru dans le journal des anciens de Polytechnique.
La Jaune et la Rouge
Accueil, présentation du site
Consultez le dernier numéro de La Jaune et la Rouge, les nouvelles de l'École polytechnique et de l'AX et des infos sur les alumni.
 Pierre Noizat
La Jaune et la Rouge
Monnaie : valeur et énergie
Bitcoin n’a pas besoin d’être considéré comme une monnaie (énergie passée) pour être utilisé en tant que réseau de paiement.
 Yves Choueifaty
La Jaune et la Rouge
Bitcoin : une thèse d’investissement
Une thèse d’investissement pour le bitcoin, c’est qu’il possède des qualités fondamentales d'un nouvel étalon de mesure de la valeur.
 Bastien Teinturier
La Jaune et la Rouge
Bitcoin et Lightning : deux réseaux pour passer à l’échelle
Le réseau Lightning constitue avec le réseau Bitcoin une alternative offrant aux utilisateurs de cryptomonnaie un choix sécurisé.
 Michel Khazzaka
La Jaune et la Rouge
Cryptomonnaies et paiements : adoption et coexistence avec la monnaie fiat
Nous orientons nous vers un monde où la monnaie classique cohabitera avec les cryptomonnaies pour les paiements du quotidien ?
 Jad Comair
La Jaune et la Rouge
Bitcoin, une solution contre la libanisation du monde ?
Le Bitcoin serait-il une solution permettant la séparation de la monnaie et de l’État, prévenant le genre d’abus qu’a connu le Liban ?
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CodingInLondon 1 year ago
There is a lot in @gladstein latest article:
Bitcoin Magazine
Stranded: How Bitcoin Is Saving Wasted Energy And Expanding Financial Freedom In Africa
Hundreds of millions of Africans face two problems holding them back from progress: 600 million lack electricity, while virtually all 1.4 billion p...
 The most salient: 1. Details about a Gridless hydro operation in Bondo, Malawi. Capex vs opex funding. 2. Opportunities of geothermal mining in Malawi. 3. the recent situation in Malawi: 2023 devaluation of the local currency. Still reading it... Will add to my collection of references: https://099244.wixsite.com/mysite
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CodingInLondon 1 year ago
Gresham’s law: people tend to spend weaker money and hoard the harder money. ➡️ Therefore the harder money is not much used as a means of payment. However it is used for savings. Thiers’ law: at one point, weaker money is losing its purchasing power so fast that merchants stop accepting it and prefer being paid with harder money. ➡️ Harder money then replaces weaker money as a means of payment.
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CodingInLondon 1 year ago
A quote that struck me while listening to Audible last night: "People have historically been willing to deal with weak money if it’s faster than gold, but if weak money doesn’t even have a speed advantage relative to harder money alternatives, then in a world of widely accepted bitcoin it would likely become harder for governments to convince their people to accept fiat currencies for payment and hold large amounts of value in them. Gresham’s law dominates until the weaker money is basically useless. At that point, Thiers’ law takes over, which observes that good money drives out bad money. A payee generally wants to pay for goods with weaker money, and a merchant generally wants to sell their goods for stronger money. If a weaker money gets bad enough that merchants won’t even accept it, that is when Gresham’s law gives over to Thiers’ law. ” Broken Money Lyn Alden
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CodingInLondon 1 year ago
Tobacco was introduced to China by the Portuguese during the 16th century. It was actually considered as a medicine (!). People would sniff it out of small bottles. Emperors would collect those bottles and it became cool in China to carry around a snuff bottle. (they do look cute) image
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CodingInLondon 2 years ago
Bitcoin is used by criminals who are bored with the safety of physical cash and prefer taking the risk of leaving permanent tracks on a public blockchain, giving plenty of hints to help investigators find them sooner or later.
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CodingInLondon 2 years ago
Lyn Alden: "fees aren't expensive because there are frogs on the timechain; fees are still cheap because relatively few people are using bitcoin to send and store money compared to the total addressable market that could be doing so."
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