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Daniel Batten · 22h
Of the peer reviewed papers on Bitcoin, >90% of them are on Bitcoin and energy Of Cambridge's report on Bitcoin, >75% of the report is on Bitcoin mining Of countries forming National Bitcoin Reserv...
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In hindsight, it should have been obvious to me. The first talk I ever gave at a Bitcoin conference was about Bitcoin-and-energy. 2/3 of the audience who'd been listening to the previous speakers left before I said a word. But outside the Bitcoin conference, the video of that talk was watched by more than double the number of people as the next highest talk. Both the Bitcoiners (literally) leaving the room, and those outside Bitcoin leaning in were nothing to do with me, and everything to do with how important each community felf the content was, relative to the Bitcoin-and-money discussion.
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twentyone · 22h
Telling. I had a conversation with someone I randomly met about bitcoin and energy. He couldn’t care less about bitcoin as money but was interested in how bitcoin mining helps stabilize the grid especially depending on the energy source. He was a government employee that worked for a state energy ...