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By now, you've probably heard the environmentalist knock on bitcoin, including apocalyptic claims that it will use up all of the world's energy and will single-handedly increase global temperatures until the planet is uninhabitable. ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.yo
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Twelve years ago today, on Halloween 2008, Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper. This is what it means to me.
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How to compare blockchains
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A response to Noah Smith Excess natural gas being employed to mine Bitcoin at an oil well in Alberta, CA. Used with permission by Upstream Data The Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith has a lot of thoughts on Bitcoin. Some of them are really solid and engage with the reality of the p...
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What people fail to consider when they criticize Bitcoin's electricity footprint, according to our columnist.
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It is a mistake to view bitcoin’s success as a trade-off against the creation of credit. Its future depends on it, says our columnist, a partner at Castle Island Ventures.
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Or: a eulogy for bitcoin maximalism So yesterday I was the subject of controversy on Bitcoin Twitter over my firm Castle Island’s investment in Dynamic, a wallet-based sign on company. This was quite surprising to me. I figured that people knew what it was that I did for a livin...
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Matt and Nic return for a fiery episode of deals and news. In this episode:  - Is miner selling backed up by the on-chain data?  - Is Massachusetts open to pro-crypto legislation?  - FTX provides credit support to embattled crypto lenders  - Why private market transactions do not constitute bai
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i'm not a fedwatcher by any means but my assessment is they're so humiliated by being historically wrong on inflation that they're going to plunge the economy into a depression just to quell it until everyone panics and it becomes politically impossible to stay the course
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A post-mortem on Terra, a pre-mortem on DeFi, and a glimpse of the madness to come
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How a European war made an argument about mining moot. This op-ed is part of Mining Week.
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SHOW NOTES: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-end-of-the-dollar-hegemony Nic Carter is a Partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder and Chairman of Coin Metrics. In this interview, we discuss the seizure of Russian Central Bank assets by the G7, the demise of US hegemony, and a multi
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Nic Carter is a Partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder and Chairman of Coin Metrics. In this interview, we discuss the seizure of Russian Central Bank assets by the G7, the demise of US hegemony, and a multipolar multi-reserve world. - - - - Whilst it is arguable whether America’s geop
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Seizing Russian holdings of American debt risks the role of the U.S. in the international system and opens the door to gold and bitcoin.
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This is literal, verifiable, blatant fake news. Completely fraudulent academia. The de vries paper this is based on comes up with this estimate out of pure thin air. Any miner would tell you different twitter.com/doctorow/status/1493288106342105093
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Veteran Bitcoin commentator and inventor of Drivechains Paul Sztorc joins the show to talk Bitcoin's sustainability and the role of merged mined side chains. In this episode:  - Why Paul is the ‘Steely Dan’ of Bitcoin - Revisiting ‘Measuring decentralization’ - Revisiting Paul’s argument on Proo
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The Bitcoin Mining Council is a voluntary and open forum of Bitcoin miners committed to the network and its core principles. We promote transparency, share best practices, and educate the public on the benefits of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining. Presenters - Michael Saylor: @michael_saylor // hope.com
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