1/ As leaders gather in NY for Climate Week, we want to flag an important part of the renewable energy puzzle - Bitcoin mining. Here’s why 🧵
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Because of bitcoin mining, 1800 homes in this African village have electricity
- Food can be stored in fridges, so villagers do not have to make the 12-mile trek to batch purchase
- Cooking the evening meal is 3x quicker
unherd.com/2024/01/the-af…
Tether, Pig Butchering, and academic truth laundering
How crypto-critical academics influence the press and policymakers with junk papers — MY LATEST
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The death of Bitcoin gaslighting in the mainstream media
Using litmaps, we can see that the origin of all junk science on Bitcoin's environmental impact was a single commentary (not even a full length paper) by Alex de Vries
The method he used to claim that Bitcoin's
This week began with the President tweeting that XRP, SOL, and ADA would be in the strategic reserve
It ended with a Bitcoin-only strategic reserve and a "sell-only" crypto stockpile
What changed between Sunday and Thursday?
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An open letter to @slate
I just read your recent article on Bitcoin by Nitish Pahwa.
slate.com/technology/202…
TLDR: the article is hyperbolic, divisive, sensationalist, ignorant of the scientific consensus and laden with long-debunked myths about Bitcoin that are no longer
I keep thinking about Joe Biden. It’s such a heartbreaking diagnosis. I truly believe he’s a good family man who’s always tried to serve his country with grace and decency. It’s deeply sad that his final chapter will be shaped by such a cruel disease.
if anybody reading this was involved in "crypto VC" or "crypto hedge funds" at any point from 2016 to very recently, has since left, and has tea to spill on the extent of the wash trading, pump and dumping, and general scammy fraud, please reach out to me, on or off the record.