Momentum is building to "child-proof" the internet by requiring social media age verification. It appears likely that a combination of legislative action and immense political pressure on tech companies over the next 2-3 years will lead to what amounts to a Digital ID for virtually any website where users interact with each other. Online anonymity will become vanishingly rare.

This is one way Nostr becomes a final refuge for those seeking surveillance-free, unmediated communication.

How bitcoin transforms energy use
0:00 - Brooklyn’s bitcoin-heated bath house
2:28 - Bitcoin mining’s unquenchable thirst for cheap energy
4:10 - Why decentralization matters
5:14 - How bitcoin mining transformed a small Georgia farming town
6:35 - How bitcoin miners maximize energy efficiency
7:45 - Could bitcoin bootstrap solar power?
9:15 - How bitcoin monetizes “stranded energy”
9:38 - Answering bitcoin’s environmentalist critics
10:49 - How bitcoin stopped a Texas blackout
12:42 - Underground miners fixed Venzuela’s power lines
14:20 - The impossibility of stopping bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8gFppa4VLg&t=8s&pp=ygUccmVhc29uIHR2IGJpdGNvaW4gYmF0aCBob3VzZQ%3D%3D