Sustainability magazines just keep on reporting positively on bitcoin mining

More than half the energy used to mine Bitcoin last year was sustainable - Sustainability Online

This trend was in play already, but 2025 was about hastening the retreat Actions: - Negative articles on Bitcoin and energy rebutted: 102 - Letters to authors of those articles: 57 - Letters to researchers who published inaccurate data on Bitcoin mining: 3 - Regulators & Policymakers presented with Bitcoin pro-ESG narrative: 162 Results: - Media outlets still publishing Bitcoin&energy FUD: 5 (down from 41 in 2024) - Retractions of inaccurate articles: 5 - Media who changed their Bitcoin editorial policy: 3

History will likely remember Paul Krugman not as a Nobel economist, but as the guy who said the most important tech of the century was worthless. Twice.

A lot of people in their 40s and 50s realize at some point that the rules they used to create success in their 20s either no longer apply or no longer work (or both) This video is for you!

One of the less talked about benefits of Bitcoin mining to local communities is how it reduces electricity prices: a phenomenon observed around the world including, Texas, Norway, and now ... rural Kenya.

Things I enjoy about Nostr #3: If you add an extrernal link to a post on X or LinkedIn, your whole post automatically gets seen by ~10% the number of people. Nostr does not do this! Nostr thereby incentives people to give source links, which improves both quality of the post and the ease of verifying a claim or getting more information. This well-researched piece of media coverage from BusinessInsider shows how Bitcoin mining in Africa "boosts local economies, expands energy access, and lowers electricity costs for communities." And here's the link to the original article ...

Business Insider Africa

Meet the founder backed by Jack Dorsey using Bitcoin mining to provide cheaper electricity in Africa

In rural Africa, Walton spotted a hidden resource, stranded renewable energy, and imagined a way to turn it into both profit and impact

Just wrote to the author of this opinion piece, respectfully pointing out the factual errors and omissions. More often these days I like to start there and give the author a couple of days to respond before making the letter public.

This week, both New Zealand's major banks, ANZ and BNZ, announced the introduction of mandatory device-level surveillance stating: “You will not be able to use our app or internet banking without consenting to this data collection.” To continue to use digital banking, customers must consent to the collection of: * Detailed behavioural biometrics including typing cadence, swipe pressure, scroll patterns, mouse velocity, navigation patterns * Device sensor data * Connected device information * Device motion/tilt data Thank you ANZ, BNZ for the free "why you need Bitcoin self-custody" tutorial.

You can be lonely in a crowd. Of all the people I've coached over the years, CEOs and founders of tech companies have been the ones who consistently reported feeling the loneliest.

Clean raw power converted into heat for re-use, and sound money for everyone, in one thermodynamically efficient process.