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Daniel Batten

@dsbatten

I write mostly about Bitcoin and energy

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Try Bitcoin Mining It's everything people don't understand about computers, combined with everything they don't understand about money, combined with everything they don't understand about energy

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A little talked about, and perhaps unpopular, Bitcoin usecase: evading sanctions and trade barriers Whether we agree with the ideology of the sanctioned nation or not, its undoubtedly a usecase. Sanctions don't just hurt governments, they hurt the people in that country who

A little talked about, and perhaps unpopular, Bitcoin usecase: evading sanctions and trade barriers

Whether we agree with the ideology of the sanctioned nation or not, its undoubtedly a usecase. 

Sanctions don't just hurt governments, they hurt the people in that country who
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"Bitcoin is too volatile to have as a store of value" is not a fact, it is an admission of ignorance. At worst, it is intentionally misleading. Here's why. Firstly, yes Bitcoin is volatile. Bitcoin’s short-term volatility mirrors Amazon stock’s trajectory: similar drawdowns

"Bitcoin is too volatile to have as a store of value" is not a fact, it is an admission of ignorance. 

At worst, it is intentionally misleading. Here's why. 

Firstly, yes Bitcoin is volatile. 

Bitcoin’s short-term volatility mirrors Amazon stock’s trajectory: similar drawdowns
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If you don't have at least a 1-2% portfolio allocation to Bitcoin you're exposing your fund to unnecessary risk, while failing your fiduciary duty to safely maximize investor return as a fund manager, because of your own ego, confirmation bias, ignorance, or combination of the 3

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"While KYC and compliance frameworks are presented as security features, they often do the opposite. They create massive, centralised honeypots of personal data that can and do get breached, sold, or exploited."

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Remember CAR, that tiny African nation who was 2nd in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender... then the 1st in the world to "unadopt it"? I was surprised there wasn't more investigation into why, so I went digging in my latest newsletter batcoinz.com/p/34-when-colo…

Remember CAR, that tiny African nation who was  2nd in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender... then the 1st in the world to "unadopt it"?

I was surprised there wasn't more investigation into why, so I went digging in my latest newsletter

batcoinz.com/p/34-when-colo…
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Witness the impact Bitcoin mining has on rural communities you won't read about in MSM They "lower energy costs, employ locals, educate the workforce and push down property taxes" Other communities are now asking "what do we need to do for you to come into our community?"

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Looks like @ECB has given up promoting it's CBDC on Twitter. Here's their LinkedIn promo. Here's my response: Your CBDC is unwanted, unnecessary and unrequested (as admitted by your own research). The only people who have appraised it positively are those who you repeatedly

Looks like @ECB has given up promoting it's CBDC on Twitter. Here's their LinkedIn promo. 

Here's my response: 

Your CBDC is unwanted, unnecessary and unrequested (as admitted by your own research). The only people who have appraised it positively are those who you repeatedly
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Now that Bitaxe home mining is 100x better odds than lotteries, the only thing that is keeping centralized lottery agencies in business is ignorance.

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The Financial Times did a very uncritical article on the Digital Euro today. But all the PR in the world cannot create a need that does not exist for a currency people don't want. Let's break down the ECB's 3 arguments for the Digital Euro 1. “Universal accessibility”

The Financial Times did a very uncritical article on the Digital Euro today. But all the PR in the world cannot create a need that does not exist for a currency people don't want.   

Let's break down the ECB's 3 arguments for the Digital Euro  

1. “Universal accessibility”