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PaddleManJoe · 42w
Yup! That's why I follow you. Hopefully the hype leads to some reactors actually getting built for this round of "renaissance." Everybody has a paper SMR that they use to suck up fiat venture captial...
The Nuclear Bitcoiner profile picture
Just wait until we can get one of these SMR vendors to reject fiat financing and chart their own course with a Bitcoin strategy.

It's great to see the World Bank get their boot of the sector. But after reading Gladstein's work, I'd prefer that they just stay out of the way.
The Nuclear Bitcoiner profile picture
💡 Two Men, Two Models, One Pattern of Institutional Capture

Hermann Muller and John Maynard Keynes — two men who reshaped their fields by offering simple models during moments of crisis. LNT and Keynesianism became dogma, not because they were scientifically airtight, but because they handed policymakers tools they wanted to use.

Muller ignored data on radiation thresholds to push the Linear No-Threshold theory, which locked us into overregulation and radiophobia. Keynes sidelined classical economics to justify permanent deficit spending and monetary manipulation.

Both instantiated perverse incentives:
— Fear over nuance.
— Control over liberty.
— Political wins over robust science.

Their models weren’t just wrong — they were useful, and that made them dangerous.

It’s time to re-evaluate the structures built atop these flawed foundations. Sound science. Sound money.

#Bitcoin #Radiation #AustrianEconomics #Energy #Nuclear #SoundPolicy #NOSTR
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PaddleManJoe · 42w
Yup! That's why I follow you. Hopefully the hype leads to some reactors actually getting built for this round of "renaissance." Everybody has a paper SMR that they use to suck up fiat venture captial.
PaddleManJoe · 42w
It was me 😁. Lightning node died twice in one day.
The Nuclear Bitcoiner profile picture
Since the 1970s the fiat system slowly strangled the nuclear industry.

Nuclear energy requires a low time preference — decades of planning, patient capital, long-term trust. Fiat incentives reward short-term wins, not century-scale stewardship.

Instead of building reactors, we built debt.

#Bitcoin #Nuclear #TimePreference #Fiatruinseverything

#SoundEnergy #EnergySovereignty
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PaddleManJoe · 42w
Your lightning channel going okay? I keep getting timeout errors when I try to zap this. I can zap others so I am pretty sure it ain't me.
Logen · 76w
https://media.tenor.com/8PFwkSkhIxUAAAAC/shades-inception.gif
Svoboda · 83w
Very cool. Would love to hear a recap of the sort of questions and thoughts you got from them.
The Nuclear Bitcoiner profile picture
For the most part everyone was very receptive to the idea. Typical stuff like why not other cryptos, what about when issuance runs it's course, how do I get my hands on some of these ASICs, why not just a traditional datacenter...Margot and Troy's Locust and Dung Beetle paper was very helpful for that one

There was crazy smart Russian fella though that had some good challenges though. Mostly he was stuck in the old framework of why not just use diesel or gas for peaking because intentionally installing excess nuclear capacity, especially at first when SMRs are still very costly per MW projects, which is kind of true if the miner is buying power and not the asset owner. He was also hung up on how running ASICs at <95% load factor would have long payback. But as I explained that you can use different efficiency tiers to cover a range of load factors he seemed to be more open to the idea.

More than anything I spent most of the week educating folks on the history of monetary technologies, and ranting about negative societal impacts of inflationary money. For a highly educated bunch, they were sorely lacking in this area, unless they came from a nation where inflation is brutal.

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Svoboda · 83w
Very cool and thanks for the recap. Keep up the great work!
pup · 83w
100% it does. Thrilled to see you here!
The Nuclear Bitcoiner profile picture
Lookie what I found on an endless loop of ads while attending the International Youth Nuclear Congress conference in Abu Dhabi.

Needless to say, having this in the background made for some interesting conversations. Especially when one is in attendance to extoll the awesome synergies of integrating Bitcoin mining with off-grid Nuclear assets.
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Svoboda · 83w
Very cool. Would love to hear a recap of the sort of questions and thoughts you got from them.
Devon Olsen · 58w
What kind of off grid nuclear assets have been in your conversations?
Tobo⚡ · 86w
Mars sounds like hell tbh