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weezeling around here
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.
CO2e emissions declined 38% in past 2 years 👀
4x Hashrate while same CO2e emissions in past 3.75 years 👀 
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...
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...
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/
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...
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
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...
“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/
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.
Dear leftist,
monetary expansion is a tool for redistribution. And not the good kind. The diametral opposite.
Learn the basic mechanisms.
- another leftist
46:15 @ 780,000
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”
While Bitcoins spot price is volatile, its energy consumption is anti-volatile and price smoothing 💸🔋🪫💵 💡
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...
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.
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