Israel is refilling the (freshwater) Sea of Galilee with desalinated sea water. timesofisrael.com/in-world-first… fyi Casey Handmer via Brian Potter

make bitcoin mining as boring as building solar

Battery storage has been transformative for California: >17GW installed, up 13 times in 5 years >50% share of US market >Helping state avoid rolling blackouts >Together with solar, eliminated 37% of fossil gas use on grid latimes.com/environment/st…

swam under a rainbow today in San Francisco bay 🌈 🏊‍♂️

Mainstream media is now covering the growing usecase of Bitcoin mining to heat homes. Already widespread, saving residents money and replacing fossil fuel heat with electrical heat in Europe each winter. So great to see more of this in US.

Talking to a contact to build offgrid Solar & batteries in rural Angola: “no one wants TVs. They want air conditioning. And they get solar.” Who’s building solar in Angola?

Holy moly🤯 The entire map is basically 🟠 🧡🚀🔥👀🤩 Money⚡️Badger making Bitcoin everyday money in 🇿🇦 And this is only 10% of all locations. (Apparently the map is too slow to keep adding more..) 😂😅😅🫡💥

I love these dips. These moments of pure terror. Like jumping out of an airplane and feeling the ground fall away. 30% of your net worth gone in a week. Do I cut my losses? What if I was wrong? Doomscrolling through a feed of red charts. Listening to panicked traders call

you will look back at this dip and think, goddamnit I should've been happy about it.

The “engineering 🇨🇳 vs. lawyerly 🇺🇸” state. This book hit my radar today. Who’s read it?

Balaji Srinivasan says every startup now needs a founding creator. Someone who speaks for the product before it ships. “The founding engineer is the how… The founding creator is the why.” Balaji

Why do I bitcoin? 1. Because it's a fairer, more prosperous, more hopeful world if lots of people--not only elites--store their value in bitcoin, use it to transact, and participate in its governance. I want to live in that world. 2. Because NGU.

UI is pre-AI.

Reason #7 to be paranoid about Q day: “Bitcoin is itself a bug bounty for quantum supremacy” … legacy addresses are an incentive for attackers

Harvest sunlight. In the long run, we will all be farmers.

I actually agree with #3. Exchanging USD for BTC is not a fit for investors/VCs who are seeking 10-100x returns for their LPs. There are opportunities to exchange USD for equity/CN into startups that may 10-100x in less 10 years. BTC is not for those investors. Bitcoin is

I have great respect for @succinctJT and the a16z team. But I disagree with the argument that quantum computing is not an urgent problem for blockchains. The threat is closer, the progress faster, and the fix harder than how he’s framing it & than most people realize. 👇 0/