dsbatten
Daniel Batten

http://batcoinz.com

Coach, advisor to FOs, high growth & listed companies and influencers. newsletter: danielbatten.substack.com

Public Key

npub13lkyycj8s3da6fhndtj0wd6s3s2ahmq86s7wrruvzd4tnc66cgfqn4lpsy

NIP-05 Address

Dsbatten@nostrich.love

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsglmzzvfrcgk7aymek4e8hxaggc9wmasrag08p37xpx64euddvyysz0kh9m

Author Public Key

npub13lkyycj8s3da6fhndtj0wd6s3s2ahmq86s7wrruvzd4tnc66cgfqn4lpsy

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-11-15 16:39:22

- reply

Try this one
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-baxter-derrington-8a78ba94_why-is-trust-in-mass-media-at-an-all-time-activity-7263200460323352576-Wuh6/

2024-11-15 16:31:55

LinkedIn is getting spicy !
James Baxter-Derrington, who wrote the Telegraph's bitcoin "it's worthless" article on Wednesday responded to my rebuttal calling me a “bitcoin evangelist”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-baxter-derrington-8a78ba94_why-is-trust-in-mass-media-at-an-all-time-activity-7263200460323352576-Wuh6/xter-derrington-8a78ba94_why-is-trust-in-mass-media-at-an-all-time-activity-7263200460323352576-Wuh6?utm_source=share

2024-11-09 22:32:39

Several people have asked how I stay calm while dealing with FUD on Bitcoin+energy🤣
It's largely due to a breathing & meditation practice I do I can share more if you're interested in a 45min intro session: Thur 7.30pm 14 Nov CST
You can comment/DM "I'm in" if you’re keen
Additional background if needed:
There are 4 sources of energy (as in human energy levels, not the kWh variety I also write about)
-- Food
-- Sleep
-- Knowledge/ meditation
-- Breathing
Of these the most under-utilised is effective breathing Sure we know how to breath insofar as we can sustain life, but can you breath in a way that optimize life?
James Nester, author of Breath: the new science of a lost art, says “Even if you’re eating right and exercising, if you’re not breathing right, you’re not going to be healthy”
(Interview with Joe Rogan, 2020)
Health is not simply the absence of disease, it is a state of relaxed yet alert agility in both body and mind
24 years ago I accidentally stumbled on a breathing technique that proves a powerful aid in the many projects I found I had the capacity to take on afterwards without the stress that had previously caused me to avoid such endeavors
I found I had so much energy afterwards, I wondered “why do so few people know about this, the breath is the basis of everything - life itself!” I had the thought during that first breathing course “I should teach this to others”
Years later that I did indeed start teaching SKY breathing courses through the Art of Living foundation.
I’ve just taught course #100
If you’d like to come, shoot me a reply below and I’ll shoot you the link. I’d love to share a little of what has helped me so much over many years.

2024-10-19 13:10:15

For years I had a poster on my wall of gattaca. Looks like NASA like it too.
“There is no gene for the human spirit”
https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/nasa-declares-1997-sci-fi-film-as-most-realistic-ever-discover-which-movie-tops-list/

2024-10-12 18:29:44

"Volcanoes, Geese and Bitcoin"
#20 of the Bitcoin ESG Forecast is out now.
Check your email and spam filters
www.batcoinz.com/p/020-volcanoes-geese-and-bitcoin

2024-09-16 14:49:40

A number of people asked if I’d be doing an investigation into the recent articles on Bitcoin mining and noise.
I've been gathering data for a couple of months. The results are now in, and it's quite a different story to that told by
Time Magazine and others
👇
https://batcoinz.com/the-noise-about-bitcoin-mining-noise-a-critical-view/

2024-09-09 17:45:24

The Bitcoin ESG Forecast is out
Check your email and spam filters
www.batcoinz.com/p/19-quantifying-bitcoins-benefit-to

2024-09-08 17:27:15

- reply

Quite a few. Iceland and Finland in particular. Check out what MARA and others are doing with recycled heat in Finland also.

2024-09-08 16:50:47

While EU has been busy gaslighting bitcoin, Japan has been busy researching it.
Kenji Tateiwa, president of Agile Energy X Inc., based in Tokyo
“Green energy producers have to operate their businesses on the assumption that part of the power they generate is wasted,” he said. “If bitcoin were to provide a new source of income, that would prompt more green energy to be introduced.”
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15397216

2024-09-07 18:57:46

- reply

Yep. Cambridge, Sai & Vranken and many others have said the same.
Brandolini’s Law in effect.
What article is this one from?

2024-09-05 13:42:05

Great to see our research on landfill gas powered bitcoin mining getting some coverage
https://www.powerengineeringint.com/renewables/how-bitcoin-mining-can-mitigate-methane-emissions/amp/

2024-09-04 14:05:06

Susie brutally, honestly exposing the shortcomings of a once reputable media company #note1sfx…smgw

2024-09-03 19:59:35

New Report: fiat is the preferred tool for 99.67% of cybercrime, measured in annual losses.
What Gary Gensler and others say: "Bitcoin is the preferred tool for ransomware"
What they don't tell you
1. Ransomware ($20 billion losses p.a) is 0.33% of cybercrime ($6 Trillion of losses p.a)
2. The US Treasuries own Money Laundering reports say fiat is by far the preferred vehicle for the online financial crime
Report and data sources 👇
https://batcoinz.com/do-cybercriminals-prefer-fiat-or-bitcoin-the-data-is-clear/

2024-09-01 00:10:04

- reply

Best analogy I’ve seen for US politics.

2024-08-31 02:31:12

Sovereign wealth Fund adoption could drive the next bull run
21k views which is a nice number for the interview Nik and I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgW3drkjQ4&t=25s

2024-08-31 02:28:17

Life is full of surprises. I've just had a personal win I never imagined, my first time as an co-author of a piece of peer reviewed academic work.
The article, in Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact rating: 9.7) shows Bitcoin mining can profitably reduce landfill methane, where other technologies cannot
It’s also 10 out of the last 11 papers on Bitcoin mining showing environmental benefits. Great work Murray Rudd and Dennis Porter who did most of the work in this paper.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652624029652?via%3Dihub

2024-08-31 02:08:19

- reply

Blockware have a good marketplace for new and used miners.
https://www.blockwaresolutions.com

2024-08-23 17:21:26

- reply

Www.artofliving.org.
I tried out a few meditation and breathing techniques. This was the one that stuck and resonated with me personally.

2024-08-23 02:05:07

- reply

Yes. SKY breathing followed by Art of Living meditation daily.

2024-08-22 23:20:57

Here’s my interview with Pomp on Sovereign Wealth Fund Adoption. The topic seems to be generating a lot of interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFDRzs2lbEY

2024-08-22 18:32:13

- reply

One of the best interviews I’ve seen. You’re both doing such important work.

2024-08-20 21:11:18

Who’s coming to Amsterdam? https://image.nostr.build/c299f1c33a52ab826d9c7f87d8c9b50025e119ed96d260ee62a6103961a7c058.jpg

2024-08-18 04:13:56

This is not a bad 5min TL;DR if you don’t have the 39mins to go thru the full podcast.
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/sovereign-wealth-funds-bitcoin-148000/amp/

2024-08-18 04:12:31

- reply

Thank you 🙏

2024-08-18 03:55:51

- reply

Thanks Steve. I’ve learn to slow down a bit over the years, in speech and action. Coming from Nz and riding motorcycles was a recipe for going too fast in each respect !

2024-08-18 02:55:10

Just did this podcast on the Bitcoin Layer with Nik Bhatia.
My work doesn’t normally get more than a few thousand views. But this one had 17k views - in the top 10 most viewed out of 275 on the Bitcoin Layer channel.
Thanks for all those who took the time to watch it, and for the very encouraging comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgW3drkjQ4&t=621s

2024-08-17 22:17:31

Of the IMF's proposed 85% tax on crypto-mining, The Bitcoinist
( @bitcoinist on Twitter, not on Nostr) just wrote:
“The suggestion by the IMF is in the right direction"
Source: https://bitcoinist.com/imf-proposes-85-tax-increase-for-crypto-mining/
Speechless https://image.nostr.build/220441ac0ffacbdeba25bac0f94954c462bfdc095215039c4117d309bc790731.jpg

2024-08-14 17:39:01

Issue #18 of the ESG Forecast is out. Check your inboxes and spam filters
https://www.batcoinz.com/p/should-bitcoin-mining-companies-only

2024-08-13 21:16:58

- reply

I’ll message you some ideas

2024-08-13 20:42:47

“To know and not to do is not to know”
10 years ago I made a life-changing decision.
I was coaching the leaders and sales teams of large corporates. I’d worked with major corporates including most of the country’s largest banks and Telcos. But a big shift was about to happen.
I never forget the moment. I was in the office of the L&D Manager of one of those corporates. He asked if we could come back and do some “refresher” sales training. For context, 2 years earlier, we’d run a 5-day sales and mindset training session that had yielded exceptional sales results and won a number of awards.
“So what happened after that sales training?” I asked. As an associate, I didn’t see the long term results. Nor did the company that provided the training specialise in embedding change: it doesn’t fit the business model of most training companies because each day you book out time for an hour long piece of coaching is a day you can’t book them out as a trainer at a much higher rate.
He shuffled in his seat a little uncomfortably. “Well”, he proffered. “We had great intentions, and don’t get me wrong, the uplift in sales was enough to pay for all your training easily. But after a few months people started going back to their old habits, and those people who were supposed to support the changes got deployed onto new projects. So that’s why we thought some refresher training would be timely.”
Within 6 months, I’d stopped all corporate training. My last illusion that I was creating any lasting impact had been removed. I was grateful to him for shattering my illusion.
I knew what I wanted to do, but I had no idea how to do it.
But then I realized I did know what to do. It was to do something I’d already done that had worked.
While corporate training wasn’t my life’s purpose, it was rewarding because I learnt a lot of skills that I was able to repurpose into my own coaching years later. Plus the many hours of facilitating helped me hone my craft. Kind of like the Beatles playing Hamburg gigs before they took the world stage.
I had only gotten that far in the first place because after leaving my corporate job, I got my own coach who helped me get into doing what would eventually become my life’s work.
So I used the same strategy. I got a coach to help me get out of corporate training, and into whatever I wanted to do - even though I wasn’t sure what that was.
One of the first questions she asked was “Who do you really want to work with”. At the time it was technology entrepreneurs (and that still is one of the communities of people I serve). But what I said was “Tech entrepreneurs, but there’s no business model doing that. They are cash-strapped startups”. She smiled. She challenged my limiting beliefs. And we built a new model that brought top coaching (not just mentoring) for the first time in the world to founders of early stage tech companies. That decision to get a coach, doing something I already knew worked, changed the direction of my life and that of many others I coached. And because they consistently applied what they learned, they never needed “refresher” training.
Sometimes we fail to use the same strategies that have worked for us in the past, believing that we need to continually create new strategies. Not so. Much of the work I do with clients involves mining their experience for things they have already done and stopped, or are doing inconsistently, and making those winning strategies they already know both contemporary and consistent.
The results have been incredible. If you want more peace, and you’ve already experienced it through meditation, restart meditating. If you want to feel more energy on a daily basis and already know that when you exercise regularly you feel more energy, recommit to daily exercise. If you have a dream you haven’t watered for a while, but you already know that when you give attention to it daily it grows, start giving it your daily attention again. And if you know that doing this with a coach creates faster, more consistent results, get a coach.
The ego loves complexity. The mind loves what’s new. But most of our answers are found in the simple application of the already-known. To know and not to do is not to know.

2024-08-07 02:17:12

Our analysis of the NYTimes report of a China mining ban shows it was falsely reported.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-mining-was-never-banned-in-china https://image.nostr.build/53ead5f1e2922ef21a6b220d80dfc855c3eebd1b69cd72308f0df929450f4e95.jpg

2024-07-23 04:09:24

The time has come for the silent Bitcoiners in the cubicles of corporate life, in the halls of academia, in the office blocks, in the news media rooms, and in the corridors of power to show your colors.
Today, Troy Cross and Andrew Perkins published a seminal report showing us beyond doubt that Bitcoin cuts right across the political spectrum. It is a tool for everyone.
Why did this surprise us? Perhaps because some have remained silent. Silent through fear of what showing their true (orange) colors would mean.
I faced a similar fear years ago. I almost stayed silent too. And it almost cost me my freedom.
I wanted to be an actor when I grew up. But I got married early, and in my early 20s while I was doing postgraduate study I had kids. It was like a switch flicked in my brain. I suddenly started thinking about “earning a living” for the first time in my life. I had an Arts Degree and a Diploma in Drama, yet I ended up as a software developer for an early Internet startup.
The whole time I was in the IT industry I felt like a fraud. I felt I was only there because I needed to support a family, but my real passion remained acting.
Years later I started my own tech company which did quite well, then after that I left to start coaching technology entrepreneurs. I wasn’t working directly with technology, but I wasn’t following my passion either.
My coach picked up on it and asked “what do you really want to do this next retreat you’re running for these CEOs?”
I sheepishly admitted “I’d like to do theatre improvisation with them” then quickly added “But I know that I could never do that.”
“Why?” he challenged, as any good coach should
“Come on coach” I said “These are highly left brain analytical engineers and tech gurus. There’s no way they’ll be into improv. They’ll think its weird. It’s a super high risk move, and it could ruin my credibility with a bunch of people I’ve been slowly building up respect with”
He paused and said “What if that’s what everyone has been assuming, but their being left brain dominant is exactly why they need improv?
"Daniel, they trust you. That’s why they’re part of your group. If you love it, they will love it. And I bet its exactly what they’ve been crying out for.
"Besides, you’re encouraging them to take bold moves as entrepreneurs right?"
“Absolutely” I replied
“Well what sort of chance have they got if their leader doesn’t role model to them what that looks like?”
He had me. So, nervously I started planning to do theatre improv with them. Not “give them a book on improv” like some Silicon Valley companies do, but actually do full on body-contact improv like crazy acting students do.
I never forget our first session. We could not stop laughing. I saw a whole new side of them. They saw a new side of themselves. Even the wife of one of them thanked me for the change in her husband.
Not only did we have outrageous fun, but the results of the creative exercises we did flowed directly and measurably into the boldness and creativity of their subsequent business decisions and conversations.
Still to this day, the one thing past entrepreneurs say is “Man I miss improv”.
And … I had a blast too. For the first time I’d found a way to integrate my love of acting into my work as a coach, in a way that enriched the lives of others beyond entertainment.
A part of me would have remained forever unexpressed, unintegrated had it not been for the encouragement of my coach to come forth and declare my true colors.
I'm forever grateful to him.
Today, I encourage you as a Bitcoiner to do the same, as my coach once did. Not because it will help Bitcoin. But because it will help you. It will help you feel more full, more authentic. It will be like a deep outbreath you've been longing to take. And like me, the fear you feel is proportional to the breakthrough on the other side.
Fear is an acronym for “False evidence appearing real”. All those fears I had of how people would react were completely unfounded. The truth was, it was my ego that would scared of “what would people think of me” that was keeping me playing safe and playing small. As a result it was denying both others, and me of growth, and of joy.
I was at the decision point where I could listen to my ego … or I could grow. I could only choose one path.
So those fears of how people will judge you declaring you are a Bitcoiner, how do you know? If people judge, so what? Look back to other times you’ve spoken up for what you believed in. How many times did others thank you for your leadership? And even if they don’t - so what?
As Bitcoiners we talk a lot about freedom. But Bitcoin cannot free you. No technology can. Bitcoin is merely the catalyst that brings you to the point where freedom is possible. But the act to choose freedom is yours and yours alone. If you live in fear of what others may think, you are not free. Conversely, the moment you decide to step forth and bring forth what you believe in, whether it is improv … or Bitcoin - you become free.
The stage is waiting.
The time is ripe.
Show your true colors.
Speak your truth.
And then share with others how you can’t believe you waited so long.

2024-07-21 16:06:14

- reply

You can check out DARI www.da-ri.org, batcoinz.com. DARI has a science hub which has all the latest peer reviewed research. Also my latest LinkedIn Articles document the charts showing why even mainstream media has now moved on from bashing bitcoin over energy concerns.

2024-07-21 05:11:30

- reply

I was there last week and popped in to the office to meet Lee and Frances.
Doing great work !

2024-07-20 07:06:19

- reply

I’m the same! Thanks for appreciating this detail.

2024-07-20 04:18:32

A short story about letting go, Bitcoin, and fate.
How did this happen ???
Today, I'm living in Costa Rica, consulting to some of the world's top Bitcoin companies, asked to speak at conferences around the world on Bitcoin mining, and regarded as one of the key forces behind the narrative shift on Bitcoin and the environment.
Til now, I've not shared the story of how this happened.
My ego would love to say "I planned it", or say it was because of some special unique qualities in me. Neither are true. Sure I'm pretty good at analysing data. I'm also pretty good at communicating it back to people in a way that's meaningful.
But there are people much better at both of those things than me. So here's what really happened.
It was lock-down 3.0, 2020. Unable to go anywhere or do much, I went on an online meditation retreat. During that retreat I got an insight "reconnect with your friend Willy".
I did. It turned out in the 5 years since we'd chatted, he'd become a globally respected Bitcoin analyst. We chatted like no time had passed. I asked how he'd made the shift from running tech companies to researching Bitcoin. He shared his story "I had 2 months spare, and a burning question about Bitcoin, and I just kept researching it until I got the answer."
Because of that, this happened. It was early 2022. Bitcoin was getting hammered in the press for its environmental impact. It was reported to have been banned in China, and Telsa had ditched it, both citing environmental concerns. I held a small amount, and was on the point of ditching it too.
But just before I did, I had a chance conversation with Vlatko, an environmentalist entrepreneur who'd started a climatetech company I'd invested in. He suggested I research it deeper before making the decision.
As I sat down to meditate that evening, Willy's words invaded my tranquility "I had 2 months spare, and a burning question about Bitcoin, and I just kept researching it until I got the answer."
That's when the second insight came: I needed to do the same.
I cleared my diary and did something I'd never done: I researched for no other purpose than to get an answer. I worked long hours. I didn't eat much. I lost weight. I hunted down every piece of data I could about renewable energy, how grids worked, climate change, methane mitigation, Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin mining economics. I read the articles for and against Bitcoin.
Then I spoke to renewable energy engineers, people actually doing Bitcoin mining, climate scientists, and grid experts. I extrapolated trendlines. I drew charts. I tested theories. I questioned sources.
Everything led to the same conclusion: Bitcoin mining, as with other disruptive technologies in their first years, had been poorly understood (and on occasions gaslit), yet it would likely follow the same trend as solar to become a net positive to the environment.
In fact not only that, it had the potential to become the most fast-acting form of climatetech the world had seen. All the other technologies we were investing in would have an impact after 2030. But this could have a substantial positive impact immediately on reducing methane emissions and building out the grid renewably.
Then something unexpected happened: the week after I finished my research, GreenpeaceUSA kicked off an environmental campaign against Bitcoin.
As a subscriber to Greenpeace, and someone who'd participated in actions with them shoulder to shoulder I was surprised. So I read the logic behind their campaign to see what they had discovered that I might have missed.
My heart sank.
They quoted studies that had been debunked, and were taking a one-sided view. It was clear they had not done even 5% of the research I just had, but rather had relied for the most part on some questionable accounts written by mainstream journalists, and the work of a certain central bank employee who’s models I had found lacked scientific integrity.
I felt this strong intuitive voice inside me say “you should write a response”. Logically I didn’t see any point. I had no active followers to speak of. And the last time I’d used Twitter was a decade ago where I would regularly get one “like” per ten tweets if I was lucky.
So I wrote a response on Twitter. I pointing out the errors in GreenpeaceUSA’s messaging. That one tweet changed everything. The post received over 600,000 views. I was asked to appear on two podcasts, and I was instantly connected to a global community of environmentalists, climate scientists, philosophers and renewable energy experts I didn’t know existed who, like me, had researched Bitcoin really thoroughly and realized it was an environmental net-positive.
There was one thing that sat uncomfortably with me though. Bitcoin was, or seemed to be, using a disproportionately high amount of fossil fuel. This made me reluctant to advocate too strongly for Bitcoin mining. But then, another intuition came: a very precise intuition “The Cambridge model that everyone relies on is not factoring in offgrid mining. That’s causing it to overstate how much fossil fuel Bitcoin uses.”
Yes, it wasn’t brilliant analysis, or research. It was a simple intuition I had that I followed. I still remember sharing “the Cambridge model does not factor in offgrid mining” with a twitter group I was part of. It was an out-of-character thing for me to say.
I had no evidence for this statement. But I shared it nonetheless. And thank goodness I did. A day later, a member of that group said “You’re right”.
He’d trawled through the Cambridge website and found in the fineprint of their methodology section an acknowledgement that offgrid mining was excluded. But not only that, they also excluded “methane mitigation”.
I was amazed. Buoyed by the fact my intuition had been accurate, I decided to do something crazy, that I never would have done if I’d known how much work was involved.
I decided to build a ground-up transparent model of Bitcoin mining, which used their data as a starting point, but addressed their inaccuracies.
This work required me to hunt down as many bitcoin mining companies as I could and validate their hashrate, power consumption and renewable energy mix. There was no shortcut, just a huge amount of phonecalls, surveys, emails and cross-validation.
Along the way, I made other discoveries about Bitcoin mining, how it was helping stabilize grids, reducing electricity costs through monetizing wasted renewable energy and just how much methane it was mitigating too.
I spent the bulk of each day for two years building the model and publishing what I was finding on Twitter. The response was overwhelming.
I was invited to speak at conferences and write articles. Michael Saylor started quoting my research. Leaders in the industry invited me to their podcasts. I had to start turning down ⅔ of all conference invitations, and podcast invitations. It was amazing, yet at the same time it meant that for two years I received very little income.
This was supposed to take two months, not two years. This was crazy. While I was flattered by the level of outreach, I couldn’t feed a family on podcast invites. And I hadn’t been looking for new coaching clients for ages, so while the work I was doing was some of my best ever, that lack of new outreach meant my business naturally started to atrophy. What was I supposed to do? My intellect was screaming "stop working for free". Yet I kept on doing more unpaid work, with most of my time split between Bitcoin research, and running volunteer breathing and meditation programs and followups for the The Art of Living.
Again my intuition, which was virtually yelling at me so as to be heard above my intellect, kept cajoling and encouraging: “Keep going. Don’t stop”
Eventually I finished, and to my great surprise, the model is now used in preference to Cambridge’s model by most institutions now, including numerous AI engines!
The shock is not that people find merits in the model: I know it is a more accurate model to Cambridge’s. My surprise is that so many other people would adopt it over such an established institution. I still don’t know how this happened.
Along the way, I’d also realized that my third climate tech fund had to involve Bitcoin mining on landfills: my research was showing me that the emissions mitigated per dollar invested were crazy: 45x more emission reducing than investing in solar infrastructure, and capable of good yields for wholesale investors also.
Problem was, I was in the wrong country for international business. With my business partners in the States, and landfill projects in LATAM, it was time to move. My wife was incredibly supportive, and my daughters were up for the adventure, so we relocated to Costa Rica.
Then the miraculous happened: my two worlds started to collide. A single tweet asking for some advice from the community on twitter led to the unintended, yet much appreciated, consequence of work offers within the bitcoin ecosystem.
I was offered an advisory role at a large publicly listed mining company, a research role at another company, and a job helping create a Bitcoin mining video to be sent to regulators the world round. Then Lisa Hough said to me “you’ve got a gift coaching people. Have you thought of coaching Bitcoin companies?” Remarkably I hadn’t. Yet it was so obvious.
One tweet later, a number of founders of Bitcoin companies enrolled to get coaching on gaining investment, growing their company, or navigating the challenges that come with running your own tech firm.
I don’t know what will happen next. I had no plan when I started all this, and I still don’t - other than to keep listening to the intuitive pull, and to keep meditating so that the stray messages get filtered out so I can hear that voice clearly.
But I have felt another intuition: “Bitcoin price is being suppressed because Sovereign Wealth Funds can’t adopt it. They can’t adopt it because their ESG investment committees are blocking it. You should talk to them and help them change their minds.”
Again I did some research, and again this intuition was right. A youtube video of Kevin O’Leary on What Bitcoin Did randomly appeared on my Youtube list that same night. I watched in awe as Kevin O’Leary confirmed every word of this intuition, and then some.
So apparently I’m going to start talking to Sovereign Funds and Pension Funds? I have no idea when and how. But that’s not my business to try and figure out. And any ideas I could figure out would be inferior to the divine plan.
I’m simply listening to a wisdom higher than my own, and beyond what I could have done through my intellect or my experiences. When president Nayib Bukele who has performed a social and economic miracle in El Salvador was interviewed recently he was asked about his economic plan for his country. With a twinkle in his eye he smiled and said “First, seek God’s wisdom”.
I found myself nodding my head. I knew what he meant. Whatever name we give to the power beyond us, we are not the doer, and knowing this opens us up to receive ideas beyond the conception of the rational mind.
So, content not knowing the path ahead but trusting it’ll be great, that’s what I try to do each day. https://image.nostr.build/2cd54708a448807360851a187f7934b290008acd0da23378a2e618cd42a50d25.png

2024-07-18 00:28:30

Just heard “Nostr can connect to HTTPS without a DNS dependency”
I know what each acronym stands for and what it is, vaguely. But I not techie enough to know why this is significant. What does this mean is possible that wasn’t before?

2024-07-17 22:41:05

Today, I'm publishing the results of 2 weeks research into the claim that Bitcoin mining has an e-waste issue
TL;DR: it's trash
Full story in the Bitcoin ESG Forecast 👇 www.batcoinz.com/p/017-what-really-happens-to-old-miners

2024-07-04 23:20:05

I just write this on LinkedIn and i thought to share it here too.
A place had opened up on my one year mastermind group coaching program.
If you’re the founder of a tech company, you’ve already done at least your first raise, you’re looking to scale the next generation of leadership and you understand - not through ego but because it’s true - that you are both the most important asset and the biggest risk to the success of your company, and this asset can be greatly enhanced and derisked through the right coaching, then this may be a fit for you.
The group is for highly committed people who want to give to as well as receive from a group of other highly committed tech entrepreneurs who will inspire you.
To my knowledge, this program that’s currently unique in the world in that it’s not just about strategy and advice, but growing the habits, mindset and skillset technology company founders who can lead companies through exits in a state of optimal resilience, and happiness while enhancing relationships with those in your life who are not part of your company: no 100-hour weeks and sacrifice of personal well-being!
Reach out if you’re sincere about knowing more. I’ve run these groups for more than a decade, and have had the honor of leading several through to exit (and their exits have been happy ones, made more likely through what they learned in this group).
If you’re keen at the end of our call, I’ll also help you directly and honestly position this so it’s an easy “yes” for your board to sign off on.

2024-06-26 13:54:59

JUST IN: ECB announce first progress report on the digital Euro
Features:
- easier to surveil you
- easier to deplatform you
- easier to freeze your account
- “just trust us bro” level privacy
- limits on how much you’re allowed to hold in your account
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/progress/html/ecb.deprp202406.en.html#/search/Security/1 https://image.nostr.build/ec003014564668393e8d3278aaab1b974ab878ceda3929190004b1540b60905b.jpg

2024-06-26 02:31:57

Julian is free.
In tribute, so is this edition of the newsletter.
... with a story as remarkable as his release that every Bitcoiner should know, because it fulfils Julian's vision for Bitcoin.
👇
https://www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-015-the-assange-edition

2024-06-24 21:21:13

The Bitcoin ESG Forecast Issue #14 is out.
Check your email and spam filters.
www.batcoinz.com/p/issue-014-ai-vs-btc-whos-best-for https://image.nostr.build/92feb8c146bc014ee34a3bbb7b366efc34224e29770e9e3817b429086f52bfe5.png

2024-06-20 14:04:22

JUST IN:
International Business Times
says Bitcoin mining can help achieve “net zero by 2050,"
This is kinda big.
This is mainstream media channel, based in NY. It’s a well researched article on bitcoin mining, aware of contemporary research including
✅Cornell study showing bitcoin can create “a self-sustaining cycle for renewable energy expansion”
✅@dari_org study showing bitcoin uses 54.5% sustainable sources
✅Various studies showing Bitcoin mining can turn [wasted] “Excess Energy Into Economic Value”
Well done @marvbuzzilan for putting in the research hours.
https://www.ibtimes.com/southeast-asia-can-turn-excess-energy-economic-value-through-bitcoin-mining-expert-3734777

2024-06-20 05:52:27

Reflecting about intentions today. Here’s what strikes me
99.9% of intentions (to have a certain job, to go on this holiday, to have this relationship, to improve our body in some way, to create this project that positively impacts the lives of others) are formed from our experiences.
But our experiences are limited.
Therefore 99.9% of intentions are limited too.
This is why, even if they manifest, we do not feel free.
Faith is where our intentions are not conceived from our experiences.
The known is a shadow which shrouds the unknown from becoming seen.
Faith is love of the unknown.
The prayer of the faithful is “may my path be illuminated with the light of the unknown”

2024-06-18 21:24:21

- reply

Awesome to hear. Thanks. I’ll be sure to send them your way

2024-06-18 15:22:42

Last month, a number of people suggested that since I’ve coached entrepreneurs for a long time, I start working with bitcoin companies.
I put out a message seeing who was interested and a number responded.
The people include
👩🏼‍🚀An bitcoin influencer successfully navigate a sequence of life transitions
👩🏼‍💻👨🏻‍💻2 bitcoin startups with their pitch and cap raise
🏦A bitcoin hedge fund owner refine their offering and attract more wholesale investors
It’s a lot of fun and they are getting some great results📈, so I’m going to launch a special group coaching program.
This will be for people who want to be in a group of other founders and influencers who are
✅moving the needle forward,
✅ lifting up others by your example
✅ highly committed
Jim Rohn once said you’re the average of the 5 people you spend most time with, so what if those people were amazing?
That’s the intention of the group. We meet once a week.
No more than 7 people on a group. I facilitate the group, answer coaching questions.
I’ve run these groups for 10 years, seen several exits and turnarounds as a direct result, and there’s no group of people I’d like to be successful more than people running bitcoin companies.
Before I ran them I was also part of such a group. It was an unforgettable experience which created not just results but amazing friendships I still have.
Reach out if you feel the pull, but you never believed something like this could be possible.

2024-06-18 01:25:59

Swan and Bevan Waite have just put together an incredibly produced video in why Bitcoin is good for the environment.
Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/sr-RGdbyRDQ

2024-06-16 22:03:57

The bitcoin community is incredible.
I’m involved in so many collaborations right now. Most of them with people I’ve never met in person, only thru nostr or X.
The people I’ve met and have ongoing collaborations with include
- my business partner at CH4Capital, a fund that invests in bitcoin mining on landfills
- a group of German scientists who I’m writing a bitcoin mining paper on
- a group of engineers and researchers who have formed the Digital Assets Research Institute (www.da-ri.org)
- 2 bitcoin mining companies (one as an advisor, one producing research and content)
- 4 founders of bitcoin companies & bitcoin hedge funds that I’m coaching and helping to raise investment
- a group of small bitcoin mining companies I’m helping form collaborations with larger companies so they can leverage their access to capital markets and bulk purchasing power
- a group of larger bitcoin mining companies who I’m helping find sites for new bitcoin mining projects.
How is all this possible?
The simple answer is that in any other industry it would be Impossible. It would take too long to find the builders and ninjas. It would take too long to build trust.
Yet my experience in the bitcoin community is the exact opposite.
- There’s a massively high ratio of builders and ninjas.
- People are motivated by a mission bigger than them, which means ego is relatively low, and discretionary effort is very high
- people are by definition sharp critical thinkers. Which means I constantly feel surrounded by kindred spirits.
It’s spiritually uplifting, and that means that each new project creates energy rather than taking energy.
It’s also why bitcoin is unstoppable. It’s not just the superior architecture, the decentralised peer-to-peer protocol or the proof of work algorithm, although all those structures are absolutely necessary.
It’s the fact that on top of those structures are standing some of the most committed and generous people I’ve ever stood shoulder to shoulder next to.
Of the vast majority of people I’ve met, they are not talking about what they can get. They are talking about what they can give.
Imagine a whole society of peers like that?
I’m lucky that this is not such a stretch or such a dream for me any more.
As John Lennon once wrote “you may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one”.
As someone who never aspired to material acquisition, for whom the life of mortgage debt servitude and deadbeat jobs always seemed crazy, as someone who was offended by a system where you could get money simply by being close to the money and adding nothing productive in the process, yet who often felt alone for people the only person in the room who felt this way - it’s been a relief to find there are other people as crazy as me who dare to challenge their received wisdoms and dare dream that there is another way.
Thank you.

2024-06-16 20:40:00

German article dives into why a the new environmental narrative around bitcoin could drive the next bullrun for Bitcoin.
* Just click "English" at the top if you're non-German speaking
https://www.blocktrainer.de/blog/bitcoin-umwelt-soziales-neuer-bericht-belegt-narrative-mit-fakten https://image.nostr.build/cabe7f3f4e38f1dbe564d2671623fccf3a3e8c3bfb02c6889878a6c6fe7fcfa5.jpg

2024-06-09 04:14:23

Mining was never banned in China
https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/bitcoin-mining-thrives-in-china-despite-misinterpreted-ban/?amp=1

2024-06-05 22:41:48

- reply

Geneious.com

2024-05-28 16:57:24

Bitcoin is the world’s first money you cannot get more of through violence, theft and counterfeiting

2024-05-14 04:52:44

A new FUD-busting video has just been released
This is a good one to share with those new to bitcoin mining. Particularly those who may have been influenced by a report by GreenpeaceUSA that was full of errors.
It objectively & unantagonistically outlines the mistakes GreenpeaceUSA make in their position on bitcoin mining
The presenter is Roger Detente (@CapCrafterUS on X)
https://youtu.be/eR-LwmxuJec?si=qRzRMEfT1QZ0dQNP

2024-04-28 21:46:34

- reply

Yes that’s true. I could negotiate something that isn’t fulltime so I can still keep creating bitcoin content. Thanks.

2024-04-28 20:52:00

Hey nostriches, I need your help with some advice.
After 2 years doing my best to counter bitcoin FUD pretty much full time I’ve run out of financial gas to keep doing this.
Wouldn’t be an issue except I have a family and I’m the sole income earner. CH4Capital will eventually pay me something, but at what point is uncertain. Infrastructure deployment on landfills takes a long time and we are still at the site identification stage. I’m fortunate that we do have investments in early stage tech companies that are going well - but no liquidity likely for 4-5 years.
My options seem to be
A. Sell some of our modest stack believing that’ll tide us over to when CH4Capital gets up and running
B. Get a real job - within the bitcoin ecosystem. I’m very grateful that there are a couple of options here.
C. Attempt to get my newsletter to a stage that it’s paying something decent (seems the least feasible option, as it currently turns over four figures p.a).
D. Something that’s staring me in the face but I’m too blind to see it.
Appreciate your thoughts on this.

2024-04-28 07:47:31

8 years ago this was the work I was 100% focused on.
Sharing here because Nostr seems to be the only platform that is unattached whether you
1. Link tonight social media platforms
2. Post about other things you care about that aren’t what you’re “known for”
Would love to hear from some others here on nostr what else you care about that you’re not known for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WODOyDv08dc

2024-04-15 12:36:15

JUST IN: Norway passes anti-datacenter legislation, becoming the first country in Europe to legalize discrimination based on use-of-power
"The purpose is to regulate the industry in such a way that we can close the door on the projects we do not want"
https://cointelegraph.com/news/norway-data-center-legislation-scrutiny-bitcoin-miners

2024-04-13 05:01:46

I’m now working with Elvis Gwaro, an online journalist from Kenya who is writing parts of the newsletter together with me.
Great story behind this
1. I pay him a share of the profits from the newsletter in Bitcoin using lightning. It’s not a lot, but it’s a promising start. Here’s what he told me he’d have to go through if we didn’t. (TLDR: fees, delays and discrimination)
“with Paypal there's always the risk of my account being limited or suspended for reasons best known to the PayPal lords. If I was to receive a significant amount from abroad, for instance, $2,000, yet my account typically transacts less than $500, Paypal will halt my account and request me to explain where the money is coming from.
Their anti-money-laundering measures often flag people who are doing legit online businesses, especially Africans. I have more than 5 friends who had their accounts suspended for 6 months before they could get their money, despite explaining to Paypal where the money came from.
So yes, Bitcoin makes things waaaay easier.
Then there’s fees. Paypal charges a currency exchange fee between 3% to 5%. If you send $100, I'll receive $100 in my paypal account. I think you'll incur a transaction cost on your side too.
If I want to withdraw the $100 from my account, Paypal will give me an exchange rate that factors in the exchange fee. So for instance, currently the USD dollar exchanges for Ksh 130. Paypal will probably offer me between Ksh 124 and Ksh 126. So I only get between $95 - $97 of the $100 and that's how they make bank from that transaction. It's a big fee.”
2. He originally wrote an article that was well written, but FUD-filled about “6 technologies greener than bitcoin”. I respectfully challenged him. Unlike most journalists I’ve challenged he was more curious to learn than to save face, and started asking questions. Long story short, he realised Bitcoin is good for the environment and write so in his next article.
3. He had the idea of making a payment for the newsletter voluntary. And it worked. Plenty of people got behind the newsletter and started paying a modest amount, that now is helping to support me to do deeper research than I’d otherwise have time for and is really helping Elvis as he looks to see if he can make a living out of writing about and researching bitcoin for online magazines and newsletters.
2 ways you can support him that’ll be a potential win-win for you as well.
If you have a newsletter and want someone to write parts, he’s incredibly good: takes on feedback faster than most and produces high quality content. If you’re thinking of a newsletter but don’t want the burden of writing it all, he can help.
And of course to shill our newsletter, every subscriber to that is helping him towards his goal of escaping the fiat economy and live on the orange side. He’s within reach already.

2024-04-09 22:21:14

If I ran an online #Bitcoin session specially for people new to Bitcoin who'd have friends they'd like to send along?
We'd cover:
* what Bitcoin is
* an investment comparison
* how to hold it, simply
* some myth debunking
* benefits to civilization

2024-04-08 21:17:36

We are actively looking to connect with landfill owners globally so we can finance more bitcoin mining.
Sites that are currently venting their landfill gas, take in over 1000 tonnes/day and cannot sell power to grid preferred
Yes, we give finders fees when projects result.

2024-04-04 21:58:45

Nostr first announcement:
I have just joined the advisory board of MARA. Excited to be working with Fred and the team.

2024-04-04 08:27:57

- reply

Great work Erik. What sort of biomass are you using ?

2024-03-31 09:34:53

Financial Times continues to publish mildly positive stories about Bitcoin. A huge reversal from earlier years.
https://www.ft.com/content/4d869e6a-a974-45fe-b204-cb5f85838352

2024-03-28 01:55:56

- reply

Absolutely. 1000 cows = 1/4 MW. Get four farms together with 1000 cows and you have a potentially financially viable project.

2024-03-27 08:52:57

Nostr first announcement:
We’ve now have the capital backing for our first landfill-gas-powered bitcoin mining project
One small step closer to taking the bitcoin network emission negative and ending Bitcoin energy FUD
We’re now turning our attention to identifying as many landfill sites as we can that fit our brief.
If you have contacts in waste management and want to know more about what we’re looking for, send me a Nostr message.

2024-03-22 10:01:12

Nostr seems to encourage both authenticity and more holistic self-expression via the simple act of not manipulating human behavior through an algorithmic incentives.
Here, less truly is more.

2024-03-20 22:07:31

You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).
Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.
I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.
With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.
Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).
I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.
1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.
2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA
3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.
4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.
5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.
6. Within GreenpeaceUSA, we know from multiple inside sources that the Change the Code campaign has been widely acknowledged to have been “not particularly successful”. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign got off on the wrong foot right from the start, by antagonising environmentalists within the Bitcoin community, such as me. Here’s its half-time report (TL;DR, the worst performing environmental campaign I’ve ever witnessed). https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/greenpeace-environment-attacks-help-bitcoin… Now, the campaign is in more disarray than ever, resorting to tenuous ad hominem attacks against Satoshi Action, based on the discover that one of their supporters is a climate denier. True. Well, guess what: one of their supporters is also a plant-based, tree-hugging, climate-activist & meditation teacher: me. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin: it pulls people in from across the political spectrum: we are as diverse as society itself, and that’s what makes us strong. As I wrote recently, “when the ship you’re standing on is sinking: it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left of right side of it.”
I hoped GreenpeaceUSA would end their anti-Bitcoin campaign before their credibility and relevance to the new generation of millennials they are currently disenfranchising is completely severed.
But it seems at the moment they are more intent on doubling down on misinformation. Their leadership must change for them to ever have hope of becoming a true voice for the environment again.

2024-03-20 21:05:41

Just dropped a 20-min high intensity pod with Nik Bhatia. Together we cover:
♻ Bitcoin Energy misinformation: ignorance or propaganda?
❓ What surprising institutes now support bitcoin mining
🔥 How to permanently end #Bitcoin energy FUD
⛏ How to end BTC mining regulatory hostility
📈 Why future ESG funds will have to invest in #BTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1GSirrOGo

2024-03-17 23:56:00

Left or right?
I was recently reflecting that since getting involved in bitcoin, a lot of the debates I used to have no longer make sense to me. Here’s my attempt to capture why.
You are a passenger on a ship. Your captain informs you "I have good news and bad news for you. Which would you like to hear first?"
Being an pragmatist, you opt for the bad news.
"The ship is sinking" he informs you
"Well, what's the good news?" you venture
"We have decided to give you the choice of which side of the ship you would like your cabin to be on"
In a world where the ship of the global fiat economy is sinking fast - old concepts like "left" and "right" are meaningless.
The question is not, “is the left or right side better”.
The question is "Where's the #%^*^‰ liferaft - and how can I get as many of my friends and family onto it as possible!?"
Of course, if you don't believe the ship is sinking, you'll stay on the ship and have debates with other passengers about which side of the ship is better.
Lifeboats tend to be colored orange. There are more seats on the boat available. But they are starting to fill up: their supply is, after all, limited.

2024-03-03 09:13:42

Just finished my keynote at BitcoinAtlantis
LFG = NGU
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bikLdxCKQjc?start=1436

2024-02-15 20:00:51

I want to get each of my daughters (29, 15 and 9) started on saving in sats.
Simplest way to get them started?

2024-01-16 11:06:07

- reply

Batcoinz.com/BEEST

2024-01-16 07:36:24

New all time high
*sharing on Nostr first
Bitcoin now uses 54.5% sustainable energy, the highest of any global industry https://image.nostr.build/3d6b4832d1b05f2bbd697140a76756bf22b959122f143132833723d8ebcee8c8.jpg

2024-01-16 02:30:42

Rob @ Bitsaga: Deplatformed for selling Bitcoin mining hardware https://image.nostr.build/ddbd71ee9027b1934a8aeb930713057f5b7d42d0438c3cbd21b25f78e12ba2e1.png

2024-01-15 09:57:08

- reply

Community noting Elizabeth Warren, ECB and the New Scientist (x3) was pretty cool tho right?

2023-12-14 00:26:11

I just about fell off my chair.
In what is a significant shift, The Financial Times just published its first cautiously pro-Bitcoin ESG article.
https://www.ft.com/content/b26b5af8-0cf1-424b-bafc-d2ce4760a28cf8-0cf1-424b-bafc-d2ce4760a28c https://image.nostr.build/b9e114919933dcbb4f5fe7b21537f035a5cbe388c14bdfc4788dabf0b17bc4ef.png

2023-12-13 02:48:49

Nostriches, I need your help.
Every tweet I put out on X that has the word “substack” in it, I get crickets. Roughly 10% of the engagement of when I don’t!
I put together a newsletter format of my work recently. I did it because hyperbitcoinization requires a narrative shift in bitcoin and the environment.
There is $23Trillion in ESG investment funds that is getting curious about bitcoin right now. But unless they have good data on why Bitcoin is positive for the environment they can’t invest. If just 1% of these funds got deployed into bitcoin it would life Bitcoin’s market cap to 3x its current level.
So anything you can do here to spread the word freely without an algorithm suppressing content would help a lot, and also be a victory for Nostr
The newsletter is short, punchy, lots of pretty charts, free, and made to be shared by non-bitcoiners to help orangepill them.
Please subscribe, share on Nostr and encourage others to share and subscribe too.
🫡
DSB
https://danielbatten.substack.com/p/issue-002-all-time-highs?r=26zy4u

2023-12-01 01:02:46

So BBCNews wants to get into a water-fight ?
OK by me
Your move BBC.
👇
Rebuttal: https://batcoinz.com/2484-2/

2023-11-27 20:48:43

A short personal story about the human potential (Nostr only)
Back when legwarmers were fashionable, Sony Walkmans were new, and “Chariots of Fire” was top of the charts, I was a nervous twelve year old who dreaded school. I didn’t dread all of school, just one part that happened once a month, without fail and without escape.
As part of the uncommonly high emphasis our school placed on ‘oral language’ we had to prepare and recite a universally loathed three-minute speech to the class.
I reviled this day with all my thumping heart, stammering lips and clammy palms. Contracting a “rare illness” did not work - we simply had to do it upon our return; failing to rehearse didn't work – we were made to do it unprepared.
After three woeful speeches, something strange happened. In recounting it to other people today, it feels about as sophisticated as Thomas the Tank Engine achieving his dreams by pumping out “I know I can” – but this is the way it happened, so this is the way I’ll tell it.
Something inside me said, “The only reason you speak badly is because you fear speaking badly. But the reverse is also true. If you expect to speak well – you will.”
Spurred on by this mysterious message, for the next three days, I practiced sounding courageous with my unbroken voice, and practiced looking confident in front of my mum’s full-length mirror until I was out of time.
Speech day arrived.
I opened my mouth, made a joke and waited for the groans. A few people laughed. I was staggered. I’d never told a joke that someone had laughed at before in my life. My confidence grew.
Was my strategy working? Spontaneously, my voice started incorporating what I’d practiced. I noticed the audience smiling and listening attentively. That was a new experience!
This became like a virtuous upward spiral. Every time I noticed the connection with the audience deepen, my confidence in turn would go up, till by the end, the teacher could not believe that I was the same timid 11-year old.
One year later, despite overwhelming shyness, I had just spoken in front of 500 of my peers. In a state of post-speech calm, I heard with disbelief the words “Winner of the speech competition: Daniel Batten!”
The sequence of strategies I practiced back in 1982, however formative, had worked.
Nothing much had changed on the outside. I didn't have any more skills as a speaker. I hadn't learnt delivery. I hadn't learnt how to structure a compelling talk. That stuff is all the UI, important, but not as important as optimizing the underlying code. What I'd done all those years ago was to change a bit of internal coding architecture, so that I could operate without constraints.
Decades later, this would inform how I coached leaders, CEOs and founders of technology companies, and how I coached myself. Yes, we do a bit of work on the UI. But the most effective and immediate work is done refactoring our inner algorithms.
~~~
Question:
Where have you assumed you have a fixed potential based on previous experiences, whereas a small internal tweak in your internal coding (a tweak to a mindset, pattern of belief or intention for example) could allow you to experience new experiences?

2023-11-26 20:11:37

Bitcoin is now the top ESG Asset across 6 metrics.
Yes, ESG is oft-most a scam. It’s also the next rite of passage.
With 33Trillion in ESG funds by 2026, a 1% deployment into BTC triggers a 3x increase in market cap https://image.nostr.build/4ebdc6de56368ad44c19b9c8aaf05cb5e612ff207363123f4e9e91b9eaeea9f7.png

2023-11-26 08:39:12

Education: a personal story
(Nostr only)
I grew up in an old “bach” (a small, modest home) nestled into a lush hillside of native New Zealand bush in the wild isolated coastal township of Bethells Beach, We were 45 minutes away from the main city of Auckland. Our nearest neighbour was a few minutes walk away. And the township was made up of a handful of alternative lifestylers, farmers, and fourth generation locals.
Life was rustic yet charming. We had a long drop toilet. I was bathed in the evenings in a tin bath. There was no running hot water. Instead we boiled rainwater from the tank on an ancient Atlas electric stove. There was 2 rooms, a small one for me, and a slightly larger one for mum. The rich native bush and cadence of birdlife was everywhere. For a child the setting was solitary and idyllic: rich in natural beauty – sparse in people.
Growing up with not so many other kids around – the landscape became my playground; the birds, sand dunes and the beach my playmates. I would wander for hours from a young age in perfect safety, free to explore my world. The environment provided a safe haven for all of my senses to engage. For better or worse, it forged in me a rigorous resourcefulness and a lack of need for the company of others.
My mother went out of her way to nurture the creative impulse in me. From the age of 4 each morning she would lay out a puzzle One in particular was called The Soma Cube. It was a wooden puzzle made out of 8 different pieces, which you had to make into a cube. It was not an easy puzzle and many adults would venture to “help” me. But my mother would pounce on them and fiercely forbid them as though they were threatening the life of her young. In a way, they were – the creative life of her young anyway.
My mother’s parenting had been heavily influence by her own mum who in turn read a book which I found out years later was written in the 1920’s by an educator called Charles Batt. One particular book called “Hands Off The Child” had changed everything for my grandmother, the impact had rippled down the generations. Now today a book with a title like that would be of one particular meaning. But in those days it was a metaphor for not intervening too much in the child’s development. The philosophy of Charles Batt was that a child has inherent creativity and most parents and educators leap in there to “help” and stunt the creativity of the child unwittingly in the process.
Years later I read some research suggesting that a neural pathway is set up if a child has to work out for themselves where the breast is immediately after birth. But when the mother attaches them to the breast, this neural pathway does not start to form. In other words, the very first act of life after birth will define whether the parent is over-parenting, or allowing the child to explore and immediately form new neural connections. It seemed to validate what Batt had said close to 100 years ago.
Anyway, my mother would put this cube out. But never as a cube. She would always take it out of the box and dismantled it first.
I'd never seen the cube fully or inside the box. So I would simply play with these eight fascinating wooden pieces as any child would. I would make buildings, animals, furniture or whatever came into my mind. Or else I would just seen how they fitted together with no goal to create any bigger shape at all. I did this happily for around about 3 weeks. Then one morning I made a shape I hadn’t made before. Something adults called a cube.
Later that morning, mum came over to give me a good morning kiss, but she never made it that far. She froze in her tracks – her eyes fixed on the cube.
“Did you do this?” she ventured. As though there was another explanation of how the cube could have formed during the night.
“Yes” I remember neutrally replying – neither expecting adulation nor feeling any particular sense of occasion. It was just “one more thing that you could make with eight pieces of wood.”
She looked stunned. Perhaps she felt she needed to see this cube appear one more time before she could fully believe what had happened.
So the next night she again deconstructed the cube and removed its box. The next morning a cube again emerged.
What had occurred was my complete freedom to play with these shapes without any sense of objective, had allowed me to reach the objective without a sense of whether this was success and failure, but also make many other things in the process.
I didn't realise that at the time of course, but she was teaching me a principle, which I would find invaluable in later life many times, including when I started and ran my first technology company.
~~~~~~
My questions for you:
What does education mean to you? Is it finding the right answer, or the ability to ask the right question?
Do you think that if more people had the ability to ask the right questions, more people would be bitcoiners?

2023-11-25 07:15:09

- reply

Ask and you shall receive!
Apparently it’s striking a chord: it’s now the most watched talk from the conference!
https://planb.lugano.ch/why-bitcoin-is-the-worlds-best-esg-asset/

2023-11-20 22:11:10

Proud day
Not a bitcoin book. Though it does open-source the blueprint I use for changing false-narratives.
… and it’s got an orange cover. https://image.nostr.build/af99d4e122c3d6ec4a70550e8328d95bf96405b13e4602af694fe42964566fbf.jpg

2023-11-19 22:57:46

JUST IN:
Bitcoin's CEO Satoshi Nakamoto issues statement
"Unlike Bitcoin, the electricity that powers a Tesla still comes mainly from fossil fuels. Once Telsa can show us data proving their electricity-mix comes mainly from sustainable sources, we'll let them to use Bitcoin to buy Teslas again." https://image.nostr.build/948a680b8e75d144e31d4070ddc0a4ea5f95710b9bb5acba809dba777d2d60fe.jpg

2023-11-15 09:38:06

- reply

Love it! Action only. Let me know if you want some tips in what other bitcoin miners have found the best way to engage them. In a nutshell: cut to the chase : work out how much additional money they can earn per month through selling you power. Lead with this.

2023-11-14 06:44:17

Lugano Keynote just got uploaded
“Why Bitcoin is the world’s best ESG Asset”
https://t.co/6iWoxLcXsQ

2023-09-25 22:18:14

At long last I did my What Bitcoin Did interview with @npub14mc…frlx
Was a great conversation. Peter’s a sharp guy. He somehow asks all the right questions, which even led to us starting the interview with footage on an NZ TV commercial.
Enjoy.
→ Patreon: http://bit.ly/3knnbHS
→ iTunes: http://apple.co/33lfVOC
→ Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2VsOnnG
→ Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2IQO8fX
→ SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2CGSVQR
→ Fountain: http://tinyurl.com/43rdtnyd
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIE2mXme0gE

2023-09-23 04:11:28

People who don't know grids or Bitcoin say:
"Bitcoin is waste by design"
Renewable operators say:
"Bitcoin prevents waste by design"
Here's how: ever heard of a Load Bank?
It's probably the only piece of hardware in the world that was designed to waste electricity.
Why?
Sometimes, renewable generators get asked to curtail energy suddenly.
Powering down can create a lot of wear and tear however, so many renewable operators prefer to send some of that power to a load bank, which does nothing other than chew up surplus electricity.
A 500kW Loadbank will set you back $28,490 and is a far more challenging e-waste conundrum than any Bitcoin miner.
https://genelite.com.au/cart/?add-to-cart=4289…
When renewable operators replace their loadbanks with even some old Bitcoin miners, they not only help secure a sound-money network, they earn Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Mining is the cure for waste-by-design, by obsoleting the need for Load Banks, and helping renewable operators become more profitable, so they can expand their operations. https://image.nostr.build/cc0bd90fec6e5c5e16eff8b0f214bfc4cf0ff7a57ab76e39ef1e709a8231db1e.jpg

2023-08-30 07:29:35

Just put out a video about why Bitcoin is the greatest ESG asset of our time
https://youtu.be/PphdZkCvtag

2023-08-11 23:22:45

Why Bitcoin mining is the best climatetech I’ve seen (my latest article)
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-the-best-way-to-mitigate-runaway-methane-emissions

2023-08-10 06:49:24

Just in: The moral basis for the NY Bitcoin Mining ban was a fraud
tl;dr: No Bitcoin mining operation has ever revived a fossil fuel plant.
Here's the context, the story and the evidence below
Rule #1 psy-ops: "Find a scapegoat and create moral outrage around it"
Rule #2 "If you cannot find a scapegoat, invent one"
Rule#2 is what the advocates of the NY Bitcoin mining ban used
The scapegoat was of course Greenidge Energy. You know, that Bitcoin mining company that was responsible for bringing a disused fossil fuel plant back online to mine Bitcoin?
Except that the story was sexed up. There were no WMDs. Greenidge did not bring back a gasplant for the purpose of mining Bitcoin. They brought it back for the purpose of selling that power to the grid.
Recently I did a bit of investigation into Greenidge, since (no one in NY Times seemed to be), and here's what I found, with the evidence in the filings below.
1. Greenidge bought the then inactive power facility and spent tens of millions of dollars to permanently end the ability to use the plant for coal fired operations before converting the facility to natural gas operations.
2. Greenidge brought the now natural gas facility to the wholesale energy market in 2017 as a merchant power provider, under newly issued air and water permits. There was no Bitcoin just a natural gas power plant when Greenidge restarted operations.
3. Two years later, in 2019, Greenidge began a small Bitcoin mining pilot of approximately 1 megawatt (“MW”) while continuing to send power to the local energy grid as well.
4. The Bitcoin operation began to expand in 2021, eventually reaching the level it is at now, but throughout the entire time and to this day, the Greenidge power plant provides power to the local electrical grid every minute it operates, which is mandated by its agreement with the local grid operator. In fact, in 2022 Greendige sent more energy to the local grid than it did when it was just a power plant only, without Bitcoin mining operations.
Conclusion: Greenidge came online to supply additional power to the grid, not to mine Bitcoin. 2 years, later it opened a small Bitcoin mining operation that grew in size over the next 2 years.
What this means is that the claim of critics "Bitcoin mining revives old fossil fuel plants" is false. There have been no fossil fuel plant brought back online for the purpose of mining Bitcoin. This is yet another piece of misinformation used by Bitcoin critics, which is unsupported by data.
You can see this evolution in the S-1 form with the SEC, below, which provides a detailed look on when and how the operation grew.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844971/000119312521332868/d253482ds1.htm
Additionally, you can see Greenidge's initial press release announcing its exploration into bitcoin mining dated March 5, 2020 here
https://greenidge.com/greenidge-generation-announces-successful-start-of-operations-at-state-of-the-art-data-center-for-digital-currencies/

2023-07-15 23:32:45

This is the biggest and fastest position-reversal from a journalist on Bitcoin I’ve ever seen
One week after writing this flawed piece in bitcoin
https://www.makeuseof.com/sustainable-cryptocurrencies-greener-bitcoin/
He wrote this informed and knowledgeable piece
https://www.makeuseof.com/surprising-ways-bitcoin-mining-benefits-environment/
What happened in between?
I critiqued his article; he was open to learning and reversed his position in the light of new information.

2023-07-10 06:13:36

- reply

Yes. WBD. recording in sept.

2023-07-07 19:22:34

Forbes continue to lead the pack by some distance when it comes to digging beneath the surface on Bitcoin.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/07/07/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bitcoin-and-the-environment/amp/

2023-07-03 20:57:58

Good write up on Coin Republic on what Cambridge left out and how Bitcoin become the #1 industry sector for use of sustainable energy.
https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2023/07/02/bitcoin-mining-industry-the-highest-user-of-sustainable-energy/

2023-06-06 09:54:24

Without fanfare, Bitcoin just became the 1st global industry where network growth rockets while emissions plummet
This chart says:
Policy makers should consider Bitcoin an example to other industries; institutional investors should feel comfortable with its ESG status
https://batcoinz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hashrate-and-emissions-divergence.jpeg

2023-05-12 05:43:42

My website Batcoinz.com where I published my Bitcoin research has just been DDOS attacked.

2023-04-28 03:33:06

Oh wow.
Just did a calculation. Based on JW Minings discovery that bitcoin mining increases renewable profitability by 12% - Bitcoin is ALREADY decarbonizing 28 mega tonnes of CO2e each year. Considering the network has scope2 emissions of 35 mega tonnes CO2e per year, the network is close to carbon neutral already based on ERCOT grid decarbonising alone.
Assumptions: 80% of renewable profit is reinvested into further renewable development.
You heard it on Nostr first.

2023-04-14 04:46:53

- reply

Hi Brad
Just pulled some charts for you
https://batcoinz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-14-at-4.40.09-PM.png
https://batcoinz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-14-at-4.41.37-PM.png
https://batcoinz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-14-at-4.39.16-PM.png
https://batcoinz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-14-at-4.41.11-PM.png
Enjoy

2023-04-09 09:19:28

Just completed these calculations:
Bitcoin network now uses just under 54.0% sustainable energy.
Breakdown:
29.5% of the bitcoin network is entirely off grid. They use 84.4% sustainable energy. This is the fastest growing sector of the network.
Of the remaining 70.5% (ongrid) - one third of that is in Texas (ERCOT)
ERCOT uses 47.4% sustainable electricity
The remaining part of the network (ongrid but not ERCOT) is what Cambridge measures. They use 38.0% sustainable energy. This % doesn’t change much - however the portion of miners in this category is shrinking, which drives up sustainable energy use overall
Side note:
If Cambridge were to redo their model today without updating it for exclusions they would conclude “Bitcoin uses 38% sustainable energy”.
The major newspapers would headline “Bitcoin struggles to go sustainable” and “bitcoin mining claim to be sustainable debunked in latest report”