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.
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.
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.
Yes, don't sell most of your Bitcoin, but remember: your Bitcoin will be worth a lot more if it achieves ubiquity.
Cars, the radio, computers, The Internet became ubiquitous because people used them, and saw other people using them.
Kinda weird to imagine that the best way to achieve Bitcoin ubiquity is by everyone not using it.
