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Daniel Batten

http://www.danielbatten.co

I like turning waste into power. Landfill gas. Eroding currencies. The human potential.

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2026-10-28 02:41:00 UTC

Nostr only post:
There's been some incredible steps forward with CH4Capital in the last 3 months: our fund that lends money to Bitcoin mining projects on landfills, so we can make the Bitcoin network the world's first carbon negative industry.
Perseverance and anti-fragility are important. But there’s something else that is even more important: surrender.
We never achieve anything in this life alone. If we do anything of merit, either we had the genetics for it, we met people along the way we learnt from - or both. Either way, where are we in the process? Everything was achieved through factors beyond us. It was only the point where I let go of the illusion “I am running an infrastructure fund that is going to …” realized I am not the doer and surrendered that help arrived in the most surprising forms and miracles restarted occurring.
I know for a fact as a coach that we are capable of much more than we imagine, and that this life is a chance to explore what that is.
Whether that’s building a garden, a family or a methane mitigation fund is immaterial - but my wish is that you discover and then walk your true path, during this lifetime.

2026-10-22 21:22:49 UTC

Recently I was talking to the partner of one of the world's most prestigious advertising and creative agencies about how Bitcoin mining makes destroying the world's landfill gas profitable.
He responded
“If I saw a better story out there that would change the world’s view on Bitcoin, I would start working on a new one immediately... But I don’t see a better story or angle. Nothing is even close.”

2026-10-05 15:41:01 UTC

Bitcoin will cause not one but two revolutions
Stabilizing the world's financial architecture
Stabilizing the world's energy architecture
The first one most people don't know there is, or make out that there isn't, a problem, so are therefore not ready for Bitcoin yet.
The second one, everyone agrees there is a problem, so are therefore ready for Bitcoin now.
The world needs Bitcoin
We've just been leading with the conversation they are not ready to have while ignoring the one they are ready to have.

2026-10-05 15:36:06 UTC

Bitcoin is energy money
But it is also a monetizer of energy
Both those are innovations the world has never had before
And the second quality if the one the world is ready for right now

2026-10-05 15:32:36 UTC

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Bitcoin mining on landfills is going to be one of the stories that allows the world to fall in love with Bitcoin

2026-10-05 14:59:11 UTC

The world's attitude to Bitcoin mining is changing rapidly
For example, I just spent the weekend visiting 3 landfills where that country's government's environmental ministry identified that Bitcoin mining is the best solution to remove their hazardous methane emissions

2026-09-30 21:52:11 UTC

Few will understand why this post is significant, but I'll say it anyway because it will be more obvious in a year's time.
Landfill methane capture has been technically possible for decades. The obstacle was always economic.
2 problems:
No buyer for the power. Most landfills in the Global South can't sell electricity to the grid: no transmission lines, too expensive to upgrade the grid to handle the power, or govt regulations actively prevent it
Credits priced too low. On voluntary carbon markets, methane mitigation earns ~$5 per credit. That finances nothing.
Bitcoin mining solved the first problem: the miner buys every megawatt on site, no grid connection required.
Now it is starting to solve the second.
Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, a country that signs a cooperative agreement can sell its carbon credits on international compliance markets at ~$20 per credit instead of ~$5. That difference is what turns a marginal project into one investors will fund.
For years, several Latin American governments saw no reason to join. With no viable projects, why build the regulatory framework?
Bitcoin mining made the projects viable. Now the agreements are being signed.
The full sequence: a mining rig gives landfill gas its first buyer, the buyer makes the project viable, the viable project gives a government its reason to enter compliance carbon markets, and the compliance price funds the next ten projects.
Methane that has warmed the planet for decades is becoming the revenue that pays for its own destruction.
And the unlikely catalyst is Bitcoin mining: the industry everyone was once told was the climate's enemy.

2026-09-30 21:14:27 UTC

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That's great to hear. Breathwork and meditation together is a powerful combination. If I've learnt one thing in life, its "once you've found something that works for you, go deep into it!"

2026-09-30 21:12:30 UTC

For people in Energy:
2021: evaluating Bitcoin mining is a career risk
2026: evaluating Bitcoin mining is no longer a career risk
2031: failure to evaluate Bitcoin mining is a career risk

2026-09-30 20:33:43 UTC

Methane from landfills shorten the lives and quality-of-life of children.
Bitcoin mining removes that methane profitably.
Probably nothing.

2026-09-30 19:46:39 UTC

When you invest in Bitcoin mining companies with dual revenue streams, you are accelerating Bitcoin acceptance (and therefore adoption), because you're growing the companies that advance the "Bitcoin solves an energy solution" conversation the world is ready to have

2026-09-30 15:15:39 UTC

A waste management consortium recently took over an country's landfills because they were emitting methane, causing harm to residents and deterring tourism
They concluded Bitcoin mining was the only viable solution
We just booked by tickets to visit them
Probably nothing

2026-09-29 15:25:10 UTC

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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.

2026-09-29 15:10:03 UTC

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 Reserves through vehicles other than confiscation > 90% have done so using Bitcoin mining (only El Salvador purchased Bitcoin)
Of people routinely talking to political leaders about Bitcoin (including Prince Filip, Adam Back, myself) almost all of the leaders want to talk about Bitcoin and energy (versus a much more muted response to "Bitcoin and money")
Bitcoin is a fire waiting to burn. The Bitcoin-as-money conversation is the big log in the fire. It's the ultimate place we want to end up. But it's not the starting point. We've been trying to start a fire by holding a match to a big log.
Bitcoin mining is the kindling, it's the fire starter, because it solves so many energy problems that people have, and political leaders are struggling to find solutions to, right now!
Once Bitcoin mining creates acceptance of Bitcoin, from there it will be so much easier for the big log of Bitcoin-as-money to catch alight.

2026-09-29 15:02:42 UTC

Reflections post BTCHEL conference.
https://blossom.primal.net/2d3eaf420c392b62065f27431505f06f3efca6cddb8f36858bedae454df3211e.mov

2026-09-29 14:30:12 UTC

The one misleading narrative about Bitcoin that has been killed completely in mainstream media:
the "Bitcoin is bad for the environment/uses too much energy"
Because of this, its no longer a reputational risk for people to talk about Bitcoin mining solves energy problems.
As a result, Since 2024, a group of Bitcoin mining advocates is now making good strides forward across the world in talk with energy companies and https://blossom.primal.net/51605fa73da42f1f3123df7939c709ca7c437cfce16021e151b7cc65ca5c5695.mp4 governments about getting Bitcoin mining helping solve major and concurrent problems around their ailing grids, behind-schedule NZE targets, and near-EOL renewable and battery subsidy programs.

2026-09-29 13:47:19 UTC

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Demand response is only one side of flexibility. Grids are also willing to pay Bitcoin mining companies to absorb excess load. Sweden is already paying for this for example. They used 14 MW of Bitcoin mining from Flexionics, and used the service 11,245 times last year, some for DR, mostly to absorb excess wind capacity.

2026-09-29 12:15:25 UTC

If you want to speed up bitcoin adoption, that means help bitcoin acceptance. If you want to help bitcoin acceptance, talk about how bitcoin solves a problem the person you are talking about has.
For store owners - that’s “how do I increase foot traffic and reduce card fees”
For anyone in govt, it’s often “how do I keep my grid stable and increase energy security?”
For an environmentalist it’s often “how do we phase out peaker plants and gas flaring while accelerating the green energy transition”
For policymakers and regulators it’s often “how do we adopt transactions in a way that’s much harder to use than traditional currency?”

2026-09-29 12:15:07 UTC

"Bitcoin (mining) as an energy solution" is the Trojan horse for Bitcoin as a monetary solution

2026-09-29 12:13:45 UTC

Of all the govt ministers I've met with, none of them wanted to talk about bitcoin as a monetary asset. All of them wanted to find out more about how bitcoin supports their energy and environmental goals.
This corresponds with the experiences of other people I've cross-referenced with who are meeting with senior members of Government, including Prince Filip, who recently said that the Bitcoin&energy conversation is the one they are most interested in having.

2026-09-29 12:06:35 UTC

I've recently met with 3 Government Ministers to talk about how with bitcoin mining, you don't need gas peaker plants to accompany new AI load, and how you can also reduce methane emissions.

2026-09-29 12:04:48 UTC

AI doesn't threaten net zero emission targets.
But AI without Bitcoin mining does.

2026-09-29 12:04:01 UTC

I am convinced that once Bitcoin mining is accepted as a necessary grid stabilizing and renewable expansion technology, the world will be able to finally accept Bitcoin as an important and impactful technology, and adoption will increase significantly.

2026-09-29 11:53:13 UTC

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It'll probably be out in a couple of weeks. Will post it when it is.

2026-09-28 09:54:41 UTC

Just finished keynote in Helsinki on the (real) energy that powers Bitcoin.
No data. No charts. Instead I told 5 stories ... and based on the feedback it was probably my best talk yet.
https://blossom.primal.net/9b5f3d4afa7ad236086c06002d2d2eaae3b4f0b97f122388f72044fd0199316b.png

2026-09-21 14:19:01 UTC

I've tweeted a couple of times that Bitcoin wins when Bitcoiners become as anti-fragile as Bitcoin itself.
Here's 120 seconds on what this means, and how we start to do that.
https://blossom.primal.net/6186fb55d0b844a0f46166d7395a95cd7f0e5c505a25ec09ec8c944a27cf60a0.mp4

2026-09-19 21:58:04 UTC

Bitcoin volatility mirrors the inherent volatility of life. And what looks like the down are often not so.
For example, without Greenpeace USA's campaign against Bitcoin, people like me would never have come to Bitcoin in the first place.
Fighting Greenpeace USA was like running up a hill in rarefied air.
Everyone who did it returned to earth with a bigger lung capacity to advocate Bitcoin better than we could have:
we had better messages, more practice dealing with critics, more resilience, and were more connected to each other as a team.

2026-09-18 22:14:01 UTC

In the last 3 months we've gone from one landfill project in the pipeline in one country with us struggling to find a Bitcoin mining company wanting to take it on, to multiple landfill projects in multiple countries with multiple Bitcoin mining companies wanting to be involved, and landfill consortiums saying "we know we can't sell that power to the grid and that Bitcoin mining is our only realistic option, when are you doing site a visit?"
Probably nothing

2026-09-17 16:11:07 UTC

In 2006 I made a decision which meant I was working much more behind-the-scenes, but my impact went up about 10x
At the start of this year, I made a very similar decision, with the hope it would have a similar impact on the lives of people I care about working for Bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/5abdf8e2879b91e2a078c2bdf880bafa4c80b251ef27ffad5cb91f2417ae892a.mov

2026-09-17 15:04:07 UTC

Issue #53 of the Bitcoin adoption letter is out. Check your email and spam filters.
https://www.batcoinz.com/p/what-hashrate-did
Included
- Analysis on how far through the BTC->AI datacenter Transition we are
- 2 reasons the hashrate decline has been good for thinks Bitcoiners care about
- Pretty charts based on new data
- And something different: what this could meet for trading hashprice and hashrate

2026-09-17 01:57:24 UTC

“Knowing the Bitcoin→AI transition consequence on hashrate” is to trading hashprice as “knowing about which large pension fund are about to allocate AUM to Bitcoin”, is to trading Bitcoin price.
Tomorrow's newsletter will have a section and some pretty charts about this.

2026-09-16 12:45:12 UTC

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Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY5vupruG7M

2026-09-16 12:44:23 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/4f41276925fcdb9f39c64be9ba4b07206df86eb3d2a3740bd7e67561692f99e3.mp4 Luke and Brooke Cortese are Bitcoin legends
The rate at which they are orangepilling both businesses and everyday users is something we've not seen before.

2026-09-15 18:56:48 UTC

Why are so many of the inspiring stories about Bitcoin adoption coming out of Africa and Latin America?
https://blossom.primal.net/8d375c26697da2271364c89175b09d80973d7c4d90850dd78e73826dec5f73cd.mp4

2026-09-15 00:00:31 UTC

3 years ago the mainstream press had one Bitcoin mining story: and it was about wasted electricity.
Since then, as they started to better understand the technology, the narrative flipped on its head. None of them framed it as a change of position, so nobody noticed there had been one.
Here's my favorite 21 quotes on Bitcoin and energy from major news outlets since the narrative turned.
BBC
"The bitcoin mine now accounts for around 30% of the plant's revenue allowing them to keep the prices down for the local town."
Wall Street Journal
"Bhutan now boasts a stash of bitcoins worth $1.3 billion, or roughly 40% of the country's gross domestic product, according to cryptocurrency platform Arkham."
Al Jazeera
"In 2023, the Bhutanese government sold $100m of cryptocurrency to double the salaries of civil servants."
Euronews
"The country's crypto mines could, at least on paper, have little to no carbon footprint at all."
CNBC
"At one of the Gridless pilot sites in Kenya, the hydro plant dropped the price of power from 35 cents per kilowatt hour to 25 cents per kWh."
Business Insider
"Numbers from Ethiopia Electric Power show the country raked in over $55 million from electricity sales for Bitcoin mining in 2024 alone—18% of their total revenue."
UnHerd
"This initiative flips that narrative by using Bitcoin mining to fund energy in parts of Africa that are too poor or remote to merit connection to grids, but which do have plentiful supplies of potential power sources."
MIT Technology Review
"We're making Bitcoin out of surplus energy and monetizing something that otherwise has no value."
Financial Times
"The cryptocurrency could allow previously unprofitable, small electrical grids linked to local renewable energy to become "financially viable" in developing countries and in turn improve electricity access"
The Independent
"Solar and wind energy installations could earn hundreds of millions of dollars by mining bitcoin during periods of excess electricity generation, according to a new study."
Reuters
"Engie is looking at installing storage systems or bitcoin mining data centers at its new solar plant in Brazil to make the facility more profitable"
Fox Business
"Some 52.4% of sustainable energy sources are used for mining, led by 42.6% renewables, including wind and hydropower, as well as 9.8% nuclear."
Times of India
"excess heat from [Bitcoin mining] computing could support crop production while reducing fossil fuel use"
The Street
"partners in the transition to renewable energy"
Forbes
"bitcoin mining is the only technologically viable solution for mitigating methane emissions"
Reuters
"MARA's process captures gas that would have been flared"
Flares leak around 9% of the methane straight through. A generator destroys nearly all of it, which is why capture beats burning.
Bloomberg
"Iceland has become a refuge for Bitcoin miners as energy costs soar and regulatory pressure on cryptocurrency operations mount in the US and other countries."
What draws them is a renewable surplus Iceland has no other way to sell.
Fast Company
Bitcoin mining "could help address a chronic clean electricity oversupply problem, which has cost energy companies ~$1 billion in the last two years"
That is Brazil, and the billion is what the oversupply has already cost.
South China Morning Post
"Now, in a bid to turn this excess into economic gain, the government is embracing the energy-intensive business of cryptocurrency mining."
Laos built the dams first. The excess is hydro it cannot otherwise use.
NRK
"The data center accounted for 20 percent of Noranett's revenue. Now it's the remaining electricity customers who have to pay that bill."
The town had campaigned to close that site over the noise and cheered when it went. Grid tariffs then rose 20%, around 2,500 to 3,000 kroner a year per household.
Inc
"Once online, miners become part of the energy ecosystem and oftentimes adjust their daily power use to help balance the grid."
A smattering of negative coverage still runs. What has changed is that the positive coverage is no longer rare. In fact - it is now outnumbers the amount of negative coverage.
The shift started happening well before the media started reporting on AI datacenters, and was as a result of a number of researchers and Bitcoiners who put in the work to make this possible.
21 positive stories on Bitcoin and energy, and not one of them written by a Bitcoiner.
Worth celebrating!

2026-09-14 23:24:47 UTC

I've just crunched some numbers on the BTC->AI transition on the ERCOT (Texas grid).
TL;DR: there's a lot more switching still to come.
*This chart doesn't factor in that at least some ASICS are being sold to smaller BTC mining co's who are staying on ERCOT. https://blossom.primal.net/136e2ae7b070391eddc25be4e823f0adf57fd87160be28ab83bc8c6b3a734a9e.png

2026-09-11 20:52:26 UTC

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Wish I could! But I'd be abusing the trust of 4 commercial entities and one nation state if I did! 🤣

2026-09-11 20:51:23 UTC

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beautiful photos. It was great to see you both together in Lisbon earlier this year. You looked and look so happy together. Blessings for a wonderful future.

2026-09-11 19:57:21 UTC

The amount of things I know about Bitcoin adoption/Bitcoin mining and cannot say publicly has reached an all time high
... and all of it is bullish for Bitcoin and the mining industry!

2026-09-08 13:54:07 UTC

If you happen to be in Finland or close by later this month ...
25-26 Sept
https://btchel.com/
https://blossom.primal.net/00bfa3e8354c0a2c364cfd24e7f61607b7ad118b7d5c88f62d89cbc4c789e26d.png

2026-09-04 21:31:49 UTC

Adoption stalls when orangepilling fails
And our orangepilling has been failing a lot of late
But it doesn't have to.
This is one of the models I take the Bitcoiners I coach through, which has been working. So I thought I'd open source it.
https://blossom.primal.net/06d604a555d128f9b2b39691f8ed9c8af17472fa05bd9f7c33306c7f5e11e5ac.png

2026-08-26 15:07:32 UTC

Because bitcoin mining has made microhydro profitable, 28,000 more people in African villages have electricity
- Food/ meds can bestored in fridges, saving villagers a 12-mile trek
- Cooking meals is 3x quicker
- children no longer study under kerosene lamps (causes poor indoor air quality, eye strain and fire risk)
Thanks Gridless.

2026-08-19 15:01:17 UTC

Carbon Credits, who spent years writing negative pieces on Bitcoin mining just published an article stating that Bitcoin mining is "powering a cleaner future"
https://blossom.primal.net/4d30f3eecdb46298950ccf38199e54973b237bea6b4f737e641030b2b883f5fe.png
Full article:
https://carboncredits.com/bitcoin-price-below-60k-clean-energy-mining-sustainability/

2026-08-17 01:43:27 UTC

You've probably heard "you're the average of the 5 people you spent most time with".
So I recently went back through recordings of two of my own mastermind calls looking for evidence of the effectiveness of the peer group. I found not one but five ways that being around peers who challenges you upgrades you by slealth.
1. Direct transfer. The same habit crosses from one person to another.
Martin had got serious about running and was logging ten kms most days. Lance started copying him and named it:
"I've been pretty inspired with Martin's wins and how he's been picking up the running. So thanks"
This one only works if your peer's habit is visible. Nobody copies what they cannot see.
2. Method transfer. Someone takes how you made it stick and applies it to a different habit.
Stephen watched the same running habit but didn't start running. He copied his peer's habit forming blueprint and started a 5min of meditation habit before opening his laptop. He even said
"I've been able to steal Martin's habit forming thing." then described how.
3: The flywheel. The habit-started gets sustained by the habit-follow
Martin said on the call
"Since Lance joined, I've been watching his runs as well" then said how it had inspired him to keep running consistently.
4: Recognition. Hearing other people's wins surfaces what you probably knew and were not doing.
Rob, who had missed the retreat, listened to 4 people describe excellent weeks while not having had one himself. 7 days later his week had turned and he reflected on why:
"It was being able to recognize that these [the things his peers were doing] were the things that I knew I should be doing."
5: Replicating the environment. One person spread the win to their family, or company
I asked one of the founders on the call what had turned his sales around. He again tracked it back to his peers on the group:
"A lot of the culture of what we're starting to bring through the coaching and what I've learned from everyone in this group is starting to permeate through the culture of the business."
Nobody from his company had ever attended anything.
The first 4 move a habit into a new person, or consolidate it in an existing person. This one moves a habit into an organisation, so it reaches people who were never in the room and never will be.
It is also the only one of the 5 that keeps rippling through time and space after the member leaves the group.
To put it simply: peer groups are very powerful, but because so much happens by stealth, we often don't see how much it is influencing us. This is true in the negative and the positive.
Who is your peer group? And what direction does their current move you?
For it to happen at all, the room has to be legible. A member can only rebuild a structure whose shape he can see, which is an argument for running your group in a way that is obvious rather than mysterious.

2026-08-11 15:24:54 UTC

JUST IN: new peer-reviewed research finds Bitcoin mining has the capacity to absorb 83% of the wind Ireland is forced to throw away, lifting wind farm revenues by 32%.
This is probably the biggest wake-up call for grids around the world that are wasting large quantities of renewable energy, because the paper includes a head-to-head comparison with battery, finding 2 significant advantages, both which matter to the taxpayer.
1. No subsidy required:
"Compared with battery storage, hydrogen electrolysis, or transmission reinforcement, the co-investment is privately financed and operationally market-driven" and "...without requiring physical network upgrades or regulatory subsidy."
2. No performance degradation
"Unlike battery storage, mining incurs no round-trip efficiency losses or cycle degradation; unlike hydrogen electrolysis, it requires no downstream offtake infrastructure."
In layman's terms, this means that a battery gives back less power than it takes, and wears out with every cycle. Hydrogen needs a pipeline and a buyer at the far end. Bitcoin mining simply pays to use otherwise wasted power on the spot and needs nothing more after that.
Plus, Batteries, hydrogen and new wires are all paid for by the public. Bitcoin mining isn't.
To summarize: Together with previous papers on renewable energy monetization using Bitcoin mining, this technology is looking increasingly like the only tax-neutral way to keep renewable energy transition targets on track (or get them back on track).
The finding puts even more pressure on Ireland's neighbour, the UK, which continues to waste significant amounts of wind energy, to properly evaluate Bitcoin mining.
This paper is doubly-significant because prior studies were done on deregulated grids like ERCOT (Texas). This study shows that Bitcoin mining's benefits extend to islanded regulated grids with high renewable penetration.
The study comes at a time where Ireland is currently wasting11.4% of its available wind (source: https://cms.eirgrid.ie/sites/default/files/publications/Annual-Renewable-Constraint-and-Curtailment-Report-2025-V1.0.pdf). Its Climate Action Plan targets <7% curtailment by 2030. But an independent estimate says it's currently going in the opposite direction, projected to increase to16% by 2030, even with storage and demand response built (source: https://www.seai.ie/sites/default/files/2025-02/dess-background-material-2024%E2%80%932040.pdf).
The paper is published in Energy Economics which has an impact factor of 13.5 (top 2% of academic journals)
Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109454
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2026-08-10 01:40:41 UTC

Remember, if your role has just gone because of AI , the market has told you what your job was worth.
It has told you nothing about what you are worth.

2026-08-07 15:13:44 UTC

I don't think the true value of Nostr is well understood.
Privacy and anti-censorship is <10% of why I think Nostr is cool. The other 90% is that this is the one place in social media that because there is no algorithmic distortion, I can get pure signal on who cares about what I write. And that means two very important things
1. The first is that Nostr encourages the authenticity and multi-dimensionality of the human spirit
It has restored my faith that you can be well known within an ecosystem for a speciality (Bitcoin and energy in my case), but that ecosystem is still interested in other things you say - sometimes more interested in the other things you say than your speciality
The result is, I am encouraged to express all of who I am, not just the part that I happened to have become better known for at a point in time. That is inherently a more full, and enriching way to live.
2. The second is that Nostr makes you better at serving others
I get genuine signal from a community about what people want to write about. That gives me a sense of what a whole community care about, which helps shape what I talk about at conferences, on podcasts and even in dinner conversations.
The result is I can hopefully serve people better by being more relevant and interesting when I speak to others, whether in private conversation or at a conference.
So Nostr, and only Nostr, helps you live in a more expansive and fully expressed way and it helps you serve others by being more attuned to the sorts of things people care about.
Those are not 2 small things. Those are not theoretical or philosophical benefits, or benefits that are relevant to only a small subset of people who care about a particular niche issue.
These are significant benefits that are available to any human who want their social media channels operating in the background to support rather than constrain their exploration of who they are, and how the relate what they care about to others in the most useful, clear and relevant way.
And that is a much much larger group of people.
Thank you for those who built this technology, and who continue to make it better.

2026-08-06 21:25:49 UTC

He stole another founder's habit
One day I was getting ready to run my mastermind call with a group of company founders, unaware that it was the group’s turn to teach me something that day.
I’d always known that the peer group was a powerful and easy way for people to change behaviors and become the best version of themselves. But I was about to realize something wholly new.
Stephen had been silent on the subject of the running habit that was sweeping the group. But this week he spoke up, and not in the way anyone expected.
"I've been able to steal Martin’s habit forming thing."
“You started running?” I was about to ask. But before the question could leave my lips he said.
“I started meditating”
He went on to describe that he didn’t feel the need to start running, as his exercise was already sorted, but he’d used the principles Martin had shared a few weeks ago about how he started his running habit, and used them to finally put in place a meditation practice he’d been meaning to instill for months.
Two weeks later he described where he had got to after two weeks meditation:
"I realized I’d probably only been running at about 10% of my potential... compared to what I normally could achieve. I felt like I've probably gone back to maybe 80%."
I asked whether that was energy or output. He answered “Both”. Then he landed on the number I had not expected:
"We've doubled our sales wins."
There was a collective “What???” on the group, like
‘You just let that win slide on in there like some minor side effect?”
Needless to say I asked “How?”
He said only that his conversations had been different. On a later call he told me what different meant.
He was calmer in each call.
He talked less and listened more.
He was more present and less attached to the outcome.
And that produced a completely different result from the same pipeline.
Here’s the thing: he did not even get better at selling.
He just stopped doing the things that were making him worse at it.
Every item on that list he gave me was something that had been negatively impacting his true potential to sell effectively, that he’d removed.
Nobody in that room taught him any new sales skills.
Nobody in that room even taught him to meditate!
Rather, one man described how he had made his running-habit stick. His peer heard the structure underneath it, lifted it out, and applied it to something completely different that was relevant to him.
That is what a peer group does that nothing else can.
Who is your peer group?
And do they bring out the best in you?

2026-07-28 23:50:22 UTC

JUST IN: Bitcoin is now 59.4% sustainably powered
🥇Higher than any reported global industry
⬆️Up 7.0% since last Cambridge survey 14 months ago
🌊Largest power source: hydro
Source: Cambridge 2026
https://blossom.primal.net/93fadca290d4b69a7bc535ebbfb0f7680c3a9c4c6ecfb0d57430640fc28a33d4.png

2026-07-28 23:33:26 UTC

The "waste of energy" argument doesn't survive a cold one.
https://blossom.primal.net/e3323b04e7cd605dfac0286a1a0638926232e7309e0ee428e33ff82402eeb3ee.png

2026-07-27 12:41:43 UTC

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there should be!

2026-07-27 01:05:07 UTC

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This is the vocal analysis of the voice of one of my clients who is doing his next capraise.

2026-07-24 14:58:36 UTC

I'm seriously geeking out on this image right now.
You can now use AI to help transform the 2nd-most recognizable part of you: your voice.
OK, some context. Years ago I wrote a book on pitching.
But it is really a book about any sort of situation where you seek to influence someone (like helping Bitcoin adoption through orangepilling).
I use the principles myself when changing people's minds about the Bitcoin and energy, and I also teach it to clients, who have a 91.1% success rate with their investment pitches (Industry average is apparently 10.4%, so seems like it works).
The book is a manual for improving all elements of influence: message, deliver, tactics and mindset. Unless all are strong, influence is unlikely to occur.
I was lucky enough to have spent a lot of my 20s doing acting for stage and TV, so I learnt how to improve delivery during those years and teach it to others. But I've never had a tool to objectively show people that their delivery has improved.
Now I do. This is just a snippet of a more extensive analysis that also gets quite technical with difference aspects of voice resonance. This client was someone I'd worked with previously to win his seed investment, but he came to me because when approaching seed-SeriesA he was getting feedback that his delivery was flat from his own team, and he agreed.
They were right! So we did a solid 2 months of voicework, and the harsh objective lens of AI is now saying his monotone is not only gone, but he's now speaking in the dynamic range.
Voicework has always tended to be something that felt subjective, but now thanks to AI it is appealing to analytical people who like the data too
We are only just beginning to tap the potential for AI for self-improvement.
https://blossom.primal.net/2781b5e0196e5a205e79b39fdbdaa0daa7b66344ba9f27221e29a761e7a85852.png

2026-07-23 23:28:13 UTC

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Correction: the Renova source is https://neofeed.com.br/economia/renova-dribla-corte-de-energia-renovavel-com-aposta-em-data-center-de-r-1-bi-para-minerar-criptomoedas/en/

2026-07-22 22:47:44 UTC

Texas has begun replacing its most flexible load with its most inflexible one.
Hmmm.
https://blossom.primal.net/cf819e55b37c8c425412e1afbac4b903b17b7ec2d00a753267602f0287556f3f.png

2026-07-22 22:40:30 UTC

Bitcoin payments are not only the fastest to settle (instant) and the lowest fees, they are also the most enviromentally friendly.
When you choose visa etc over Bitcoin/lightning, you are choosing a network that is slow, dirty and expensive over one that is instant, clean and fair. https://blossom.primal.net/eaf314ae737d6430176244cc78bbc65b30b62522c7e859e5ca25383c5a585ef5.png

2026-07-22 22:36:56 UTC

Monarchies (like Bhutan and UAE) like Bitcoin so much?
Ironically, because they are authocratic and centralized they can make decisions very fast that benefit their people, rather than their own chance of re-election.

2026-07-16 14:42:52 UTC

Just put together my new website.
The old one was 6 years out of date and didn't reflect any of my Bitcoin work. It does now!
Grateful for 2 things
1. For how Bitcoin has grown me as a person,
and ...
2. That we have Nostr, so I can put an external link in a message and not have to endure a 90% derate.
Here's the site. The homepage also backlinks to all my Bitcoin&Energy research
https://danielbatten.co/

2026-07-15 15:03:03 UTC

The world is, and will continue to embrace Bitcoin's ability to solve an energy problem before it embraces Bitcoin's ability to solve a monetary problem. Because ... incentives. https://blossom.primal.net/065465a8b6f186c1f237084fd0fb8144667dda4f1f52e018d20dc30959263a07.mov

2026-07-14 13:43:43 UTC

In 5 minutes, this is the remarkable story of why Bitcoin mining is the only economically sustainable solution to the collision of the 2 biggest megatrends in the history of electricity
https://blossom.primal.net/f8be404e4e031ad6d0b382484d5b0562f71fdace72b9ea7c1f77cae6d6ff7b16.mov

2026-07-09 14:47:36 UTC

If someone says to you "Bitcoin is bad for the environment" here's my 2.47min coaching on how to respond. https://blossom.primal.net/9e118a42f7af696ecaa5b5a924541450891d7343c1a55150b7d29941e722cdbc.mp4
~95% of Bitcoiners currently don't do this, and it is a simple (and powerful) fix.

2026-07-03 13:36:04 UTC

What's happening on the Swedish grid right now is surprising a lot of people in the Bitcoin community. And it is a window into the future regarding the usecase the world embraces first.
https://blossom.primal.net/3682f37ce6fa14f1756b10667dea9811bb20a866d341cb6e3cf514cf29084048.mp4

2026-06-04 15:44:25 UTC

I've made this newsletter edition a special free edition, because
1. It's inspiring story about a guy no-one's heard of, who's achieved something no other Bitcoin has yet achieved
2. There are more useful things to pay attention to right now than the price.
3. There's an important lesson in it that I believe can help Bitcoin adoption
https://www.batcoinz.com/p/the-truth-is-not-enough
Feel free to share this one widely, including with non-Bitcoiners.It's written for them too.

2026-06-04 12:09:24 UTC

New paper finds:
Bitcoin mining enables better absorption of surplus renewable generation, minimizing curtailment and supporting higher renewable integration without extra storage or infrastructure costs, creating a win-win for grid stability and mining profitability.
The finding is significant, because it establishes Bitcoin Mining as the only way grid operators can avoid the significant cost of balancing frequency fluctuations and operational cost increases that doesn't involve significant capital outlay on grids with high renewable penetration
https://blossom.primal.net/e4683766667ce92bd620952b9cfcb2b931fc02e410fb854bde433ef352824cda.png
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378779625007874
The paper Leveraging Bitcoin Mining in Demand-Response to Mitigate Ramping-Induced Transients (Ginzburg-Ganz et al. 2026) was published in Electric Power Systems Research, which has an Impact Factor of 4.2, placing it in the top 12% of academic journals worldwide.

2026-06-02 18:41:49 UTC

As a kiwi, we have this thing called "Tall Poppy Syndrome" that makes me (still) reluctant even to repost what others say about me
... however, if you're doing something of value, its important people find out about it. A good coach from my experience is one of the biggest unlocks of your potential, and a coach who gets Bitcoin is rare.
Apparently I'm quite good at this, so if you have a project or mission that can advance Bitcoin - reach out.
Some recent unsolicited feedback from other Bitcoiners on coaching with me
Kent Halliburton (CEO Sazmining)
https://x.com/khalliburton/status/1887599468356190589
Tim Niemeyer (Founder IBC)
https://x.com/tim_niemeyer_/status/2014735140241465848
Ismael Dainehine (CEO Evergive)
https://x.com/ishabisinia/status/1997962004024189294
Scott Offord (CEO Bitcoin Mining World)
https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2061878510319210740
Michele Morucci (Founder Geyserfund)
https://x.com/metamick14/status/1887147848405270960

2026-05-20 12:37:19 UTC

Here's an article I wrote yesterday on 13 little-known benefits of meditation, and how they apply specifically to Bitcoiners
https://x.com/DSBatten/status/2056760811624747095?s=20
I wanted to take this a step further on Nostr though ...
A common question I get "I've heard that meditation is something that would really benefit me, where should I start - try out an app?"
Here's my take: an app is a better starting point than most people think, and ... a worse endpoint than most people realise !
Learning meditation from an app to learning to cook from YouTube. You'll produce edible meals and learn real techniques. Some people even become good cooks this way.
But there are two things a video can never do - taste what you've made and tell you what's off.
A teacher can read your experience in real time, adjust the instruction to what's actually happening for you, and introduce progression at the moment you're ready for it.
An app delivers the same content to everyone regardless of where they are.
My objective appraisal is that apps like Headspace and Waking Up have genuinely lowered the barrier to entry and that's something we should celebrate. Someone who meditates daily with an app is in a categorically better position than someone who intends to find a teacher and never starts.
The risk isn't that apps teach badly (most teach the fundamentals accurately), the risk is that the early stages feel complete because you don't yet know what you're missing
Three months in, the app feels like it's working. And it is. But a teacher doesn't just correct your posture - they recognise when you've hit a plateau you can't see from inside it, and they introduce the next thing at the right time. An app delivers the same content to everyone regardless of where they are.
So, if the choice is app or nothing, then yes - the app wins every time
If the choice is app or course, the course will take someone further, faster, with less risk of plateauing without knowing it

2026-05-18 03:06:35 UTC

I just got back from the Bitcoin Energy Summit in Lisbon and I have a question that won't leave me alone.
First some context: Bitcoin mining is now stabilizing the grids of 7 nations, 4 agencies (including the Spanish Govt and the World's largest energy policy association) just called for more flexible demand being critical to the resilience of the grids of the future - and Bitcoin mining is the world's most flexible load resource by an order of magnitude.
So in light of this my question is this: why is 95% of the Bitcoin adoption conversation about Bitcoin-as-money when Bitcoin-as-energy is already deployed on grids across three continents?
Is it possible that energy is the Bitcoin usecase that paves the road for mainstream acceptance of Bitcoin in the West?
I've been in this space for four years now. When I started, the conversation was "bitcoin mining wastes energy." A group of Bitcoiners including Troy Cross changed that. Then it became "ok maybe it doesn't waste energy, but it's not useful."
@nprofile…xncl , @nprofile…zj6n and others changed that too.
But here's what I noticed in Lisbon. Three separate European organisations - the European Bitcoin Energy Association, Free Madeira, and the Institut National de Bitcoin in France - are all independently converging on the same conclusion.
Rachel Geyer, Chair of EBEA said energy is what will move the needle for Bitcoin in Europe.
André Loja at Free Madeira said energy is the most topical issue in Europe right now.
Bastien Desteuque, directeur général at INBi (Bitcoin Policy Insitute of France) said they're focusing on mining because France has spare nuclear capacity and that's where the biggest opportunity is.
Three organisations. Same conclusion.
And that's before you get to what's actually being built. In Sweden, a man I coach runs ASIC hardware that earns almost two-thirds of its revenue from frequency regulation - keeping the lights on, responding in seconds to the need of the grid operator, and helping to stabilize the grid an incredible11,247 times last year alone. (Yes, you read that sentence right).
In Lisbon, I watched Kenji Tateiwa present a circular economy where bitcoin mining heat grows tropical fish and the CO2 gets converted to charcoal and micro diamonds. Bastian outlined how France's surplus nuclear energy could be absorbed by bitcoin mining by 2027.
The conversation has quietly moved from "does bitcoin mining help grids?" to "how many services can one machine provide?"
We've been thinking about this like monoculture - one machine, one function. What I saw in Lisbon is permaculture. The same hardware doing frequency regulation, heat capture, Sats-minting ... and potentially in the near future - voltage regulation (something that would have prevented the 28 April 2025 Iberian Peninsular Blackout.
I talked to Bitcoin founders after the keynote who told me the energy thesis had opened their eyes. These are people who worked to advance Bitcoin payment infrastructure, and they hadn't fully grasped this.
So here's my question. If energy is already Bitcoin's most mature real-world use case in the West - more deployed than payments, more proven than store-of-value at institutional scale - why are we still treating it as a footnote?
What other Bitcoin use case is this far along ... at least in the West?
Excited to see what happens next.

2026-04-28 00:01:40 UTC

Environmentally, Bitcoin has a positive:negative ratio of 31:1
This makes Bitcoin arguably one of the most important environmental-impact technology of our time
As a fund manager of 2 impact-funds, I said 4 years ago I consider it gross negligence for an ESG investor not to consider Bitcoin in their mix. Many called me crazy at the time. They are no longer saying that today (at least not for that reason!)
Here's a data summary from our due diligence four years ago (which has since been vindicated with 24 peer reviewed papers coming out in support of exactly the same findings we arrived at)
How did we reach this view?
Simple: we did our job as investors. ie: we did due diligence on Bitcoin and energy (something very few people were doing at the time before recycling what has since proven to be factually inaccorate claims)
Simple rue:
- relevant domain knowledge + data => we listen
- vested interest + narrative => ignore
We listened to grid operators, climate scientists, bitcoin mining engineers, methane abatement experts, solar&wind installers, academics with multi-disciplinary expertise across energy systems/ sustainability / bitcion mining/ economics/ policy
We found
- 21 ways Bitcoin could be an environmental positive
- 5 ways bitcoin could be an environmental negative
(Uncannily similar to the solar industry)
We then applied an impact weighting to each factor and remeasured The result was conclusive: Bitcoin mining is 31:1 net positive to the environment
Bitcoin mining’s rapid renewable adoption can inspire other industry sectors to follow
We found that in the next 5 years, Bitcoin mining would play a real part in global methane mitigation (it is), grid stabilization (it is), and monetizing wasted renewable energy (it is)
The rule is simple: do your own due diligence rather than listen to the opinions of anyone: be they media, politicians, environmental organisations, general energy experts or bitcoiners themselves
That's the path to truth
https://blossom.primal.net/a739633d86fb04e8773b3babd716715d825a1cb3f317da13d6cdb5d041acdc31.png

2026-04-23 21:54:09 UTC

If you look at your vision and think "I don't have the skills to pull that off", you're probably right.  
You don't. At least not yet.  But that's the whole point.  
The person who will implement your vision is not the person you are today, it's the person you become in the pursuit of it.  
I've seen this happen enough times now, both in my own life and in the founders I've worked with.
The doubt is real. But it's a photograph of who you are right now, not a prediction of who you'll be.
So if you're looking at a goal thinking "I can't do that" - good! That's the sign it's probably the right assignment, because your growth will be a necessary component in the fulfilment of your vision.

2026-04-21 16:41:40 UTC

Putting this out here on Nostr first:
Who'd be potentially interested if we ran a retreat specially for Bitcoiners in Costa Rica?
I've noticed that the fiat-mindset likes to stack stuff. But Bitcoiners like to stack experiences.
So the idea would be to structure an unforgettable experience that leads to new friendships, and bringing back more energy than you came with, which leaving behind all your stresses.
We'd visit the Bitcoin jungle (Uvita) which has the highest concentration of business owners using Bitcoin anywhere in the world, whalewatching, watch the sun set on the beach of Esterillos. And you can't go to Costa Rica without doing a full reset and recharge from the madness of the world with powerful breathwork and then silent meditation retreat in La Montaña Azul. We'll also leave plenty of white space for the type of inspiring Bitcoin conversations that change the world too.
Looking at Thurs 9 July - Sat 18 July as potential dates.
Send me a comment of DM if this sound like the sort of experience you'd like to stack.

2026-04-19 03:43:34 UTC

Imagine if I said to you "Earth is an uninhabitable place to live"
You look at me sideways and say "Ah... why?"
I reply "Planets are awful bad. Pluto/Uranus/Neptune, you'd freeze. Mercury, you'd burn. Venus, you'd be poisoned. Jupiter and Saturn, you'd be crushed. Mars: nothing to breath.
It's true. Most of the planets, including over 5700 exoplanets, are really really bad places to live.
The conclusion that this means earth is uninhabitable is a basic logic fail.
Now imagine some self-proclaimed crypto-commentator tells you "Bitcoin is a scam"
Again, you look at him sideways and say "Ah... why?"
He replies "Most crypto has gone to zero. VCs dump on retail. Memecoins are complete rugpulls. Pre-mined tokens, you get diluted to oblivian. ICOs, you're the exit-liquidity for founders and early investors.
It's true. Most of the thousands of cryptocurrencies launched since 2009 are complete scams.
But again, the conclusion that this makes Bitcoin a scam is equally a basic logic 101 fail.
Earth is the only planet with a breathable atmosphere, the right temperature band, and liquid water.
Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency with the combination of no insider enrichment, a fixed supply that nobody can change, and a 17-year unhacked decentralised ledger.
In both cases, some very special and unique features make the general rule inapplicable to the one obvious exception.
This logical fallacy has been around long enough to have a name. Aristotle spotted it about 2,300 years ago and called it the "Fallacy of Accident" - taking a pattern that's true for a category and forcing it onto the one member where evidence shows it obviously doesn't hold.
A few days ago, Ben McKenzie sat on Jon Stewart's podcast and committed this exact logic-fail: citing crypto's failures as his evidence against Bitcoin.
He's not the only one to fail in this way. Paul Krugman, Elizabeth Warren, Jamie Dimon, Christine Lagarde all conflated Bitcoin with all crypto for years. Many journalists still fail to distinguish Bitcoin from all other crypto (though the better ones are starting to).
In fact, this fallacy has been deployed for years with impunity by people who either don't know, or forgot to mention that Bitcoin has unique features making it materially different from all other crypto.
The irony is that Bitcoiners and crypto-critics are on the same page: the rugpulls, the insider enrichment, the tokens engineered to extract value from retail investors are all things that Bitcoiners like @CorySwan and other have been vocally calling out for over a decade, long before category-conflating journalists and actors from teen dramas decided they had an opinion about it.
It's not that hard
Unless you have the attention-span of a gnat-fly, you can easily do 5 mins research (AI-assisted if you really want) and discover either what the core differences are between Earth and all other planets, between Bitcoin and all other crypto.
Earth is an incredibly, uniquely habitable planet for humans to live.
Bitcoin is an incredible, uniquely suitable form of currency for humans to use.

2026-04-12 16:05:07 UTC

Thank you X for the free Nostr marketing #note1enx…afpz

2026-04-07 16:02:58 UTC

Breathwork and Bitcoin are a recommended pairing !
Here's why.
One of my clients flew to Costa Rica for three days of one-on-one coaching.
He had a list of plans to work through, but my intuition said "Nah. We're doing SKY breathing training."
After the breathwork in 30 mins he found all the answers to his year planning.
The breathwork didn't give him new information - it removed the noise blocking his intuitive wisdom
On our debrief call he said five incredible things:
1. "My perceptions with other people are heightened"
2. "It's like everything has a new color in the world"
3. "It's like I'm trying to understand my new superpower"
4. "My meditations are deeper, and I go in faster"
5. "People keep saying 'aren't you tired after all the flights' - but I'm really energized"
Here's what Bitcoin and breathwork have in common:
- Bitcoin and breathwork both fix the base layer
- Both use energy to create something super-resilient
- Both reward low-time-preference and give back 10x-100x over time
- you can't judge it from the outside, you have to experience it to know it
And in each case ... there is no second best!
I'm running an introductory session this Friday 7pm PDT. Leave a comment, or DM if you're keen to experience it

2026-03-31 00:35:58 UTC

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That's part of the story (for large miners). AI datacenters are going to need Bitcoin mining... that's the untold story.

2026-03-30 23:19:59 UTC

Bitcoin miners are like ants (hear me out!)
Ants eat crumbs, ie: food that humans either can't use or don't want.
Bitcoin mining works the same way. It uses surplus energy at times and places where no one else can use it: midday solar overflow, nighttime wind surplus, stranded gas in remote locations.
It doesn't compete with electricity. It eats the crumbs that no one else could use. And in the process, it makes the whole grid more efficient and more resilient.

2026-03-11 17:05:20 UTC

As a climatetech investor, I have seen over 200 technologies and innovations. But the leading one by far in terms of its ability to create an immediate positive environmental externalities is Bitcoin mining, because
1. It uses existing, proven technology
2. It can solve problems (such as mitigation and wasted renewable energy) profitably, which other technologies simply cannot
3. It is modular, relatively low budget, rapidly scaleable and does not need government incentives and subsidies to make it viable
4. It creates positive social consequences in parallel as an organic byproduct of using the technology (such as reducing residential power prices, helping grid operators stabilize grids, obviating the need for gas peaker plants and expensive grid upgrades, and mitigating the negative impacts of putting addition AI load onto grids). It also helps renewable operators with the current backlash they are facing due to the high levels of waste energy they are not able to sell (with costs that are often picked up by the grid operator via curtailment payments).
This is why 7 out of 7 of the grid operators we know of that have experimented with Bitcoin mining have embraced it and are looking to scale up its usage on the grid.

2026-03-11 14:34:20 UTC

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Have you read the 24 papers that conclude positive environmental benefits to Bitcoin mining?
I have, and here is my conclusion:
The literature absolutely does support the claims that bitcoin mining
1. accelerates the green energy transition
2. can profitably mitigate methane
3. can make other technologies (such as green hydrogen) more profitable
4. allows renewable operators
5. can obviate more emission intensive gas peaker plants
This is also the consensus of all grid operators who have experimented with Bitcoin mining, and 8 independent reports.
If after looking through these papers you come to a different conclusion, happy to have an informed discussion with you about why you came to that different conclusion.
If that is a little too much reading (fair enough), I've done a summary of these papers here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-green-energy-transition-needs-bitcoin-miners-daniel-batten-zsunc/
and here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-narrative-bitcoin-mining-daniel-batten-gkmwc/
that takes about 15 mins to read.

2026-03-03 18:03:41 UTC

We're now 3 years in to Bhutan's Bitcoin experiment
That means we now have robust data on how it has impacted the economy
For context: Bhutan's economy was in dire shape in 2022 due to loss of all tourism income (it's #2 export earner) during the COVID period.
It got so bad that Bhutan was 3 months away from defaulting on import payments.
IMF was poised to step in to structure a loan which would have led to heavy debt repayments, but also ceding of economic sovereignty to a lender whose loan conditions permit them to dictate how to (re)structure an economy.
Instead, Bhutan formed a large Bitcoin Strategic Reserve by using their surplus renewable hydropower to mine Bitcoin.
The IMF has warned on numerous occasions that nations embracing Bitcoin would destabilize their economy, be less effective at attracting foreign direct investment, and endanger their decarbonizing and environmental initiatives.
What does the data say (as reported by Wall St Journal, Al Jazeera and Forbes)
1. Bhutan was able to "use Bitcoin reserves to avert a crisis as foreign currency reserves dwindled to $689 million"
2. The bitcoin reserves have directly addressed pressing fiscal needs. "In June 2023, Bhutan allocated $72 million from its holdings to finance a 50% salary increase for civil servants"
3. Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay in an interview said that bitcoin also "supports free healthcare and environmental projects"
4. Tobgay also said their Bitcoin reserves helped in "stabilizing [the nation’s] $3.5 billion economy"
5. Independent analysts have now said that "this model could attract foreign investment, particularly for nations with untapped renewable resources"
Considering that what transpired in Bhutan has helped stabilize an economy that the IMF warned Bitcoin would destabilize, it begs the question: what data was the IMF's predictions based on?
For Bhutan, Bitcoin didn't just boost the economy, it allowed Bhutan to maintain economic independence and provided an example to other small nations of a path forward that did not require the IMF. https://blossom.primal.net/65e97596c85fdf829fbcf8b0257fef3baa40ae3e623ec3ea8f8d98d4fff36ac5.png

2026-01-25 02:39:24 UTC

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Brilliant

2026-01-03 01:35:51 UTC

The whole "Bitcoin uses too much energy" myth was built on an utterly false premise that environmentalists advocate for less energy use across industries.
Not true!
Very few people believe that industries should "use less energy".
The ones who do believe this are known as degrowthers, and do not represent the majority of the environmental movement.
The consensus view within mainstream environmental science and policymaking holds that labeling any large energy user as automatically harmful is reductive because it ignores critical factors:
The Energy Source: Emissions from 1 kWh of coal power and 1 kWh of wind or nuclear power are vastly different. The consensus focuses on decarbonizing the supply.
The Value and Flexibility of Demand: As discussed previously, some large loads (like certain industrial processes or data centers) can be highly flexible. This demand-side flexibility is a key asset for integrating variable renewables like wind and solar into the grid, a cornerstone of the mainstream transition plan.
Technological and Efficiency Gains: The consensus argues that innovation driven by economic activity can lead to "dematerialization", using fewer resources and less energy to produce the same or greater value.
Bitcoin mining, precisely because of its high (flexible) energy use, has been shown in multiple peer-reviewed studies to offer a number of decarbonization benefits that are extremely appealing to both environmentalists and grid operators.
These benefits include grid stabilization (Rudd et al), methane mitigation (Sechrest et al), obviation of gas peaker plants (Bruno et al), and accelerating the renewable energy transition (Lal et al, 2023). Bitcoin mining is only able to offer those benefits due to its high and flexible energy consumption pattern.
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-narrative-bitcoin-mining-daniel-batten-gkmwc/
It is for this reason that a number of leading sustainability periodicals have in the last year come out in favor of Bitcoin mining’s environmental benefits.
Further, a whitepaper by Rhodes et al concluded that flexible load centers (aka: Bitcoin mining) allows grid operators to build out the grid using renewable energy, whereas inflexible load centers (AI Inference datacenters) encourage the proliferation of fossil fuel based power on the grid.

2025-09-24 14:51:57 UTC

Pro tip: make sure you get your information about Bitcoin (and all disruptive technology) from authoritative sources ... not the media!
https://blossom.primal.net/857ffb608b3cb1efa7258507c0f62bd05dd4cfed62e722485648c4387769854c.png
Image credit: meygavox

2024-03-27 08:52:57 UTC

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.

2024-03-20 22:07:31 UTC

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.

2024-01-16 07:36:24 UTC

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