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Black Cat Energy
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Lawyer, passionate about the law, bitcoin, environmentalism, art, fashion, cycling and piano. Based in San Francisco, CA.

The proliferation of AI compute + electric vehicles is going to cause huge increases in demand for electricity. America needs to continue investing in solar, wind + battery storage 🍃🪄💕

Alcohol is poison! Here’s to Dry February

Did you guys see the moon in #SanFrancisco last night? “We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in magic?” ✨

There is a huge opportunity to use #bitcoin for transactions involving voluntary carbon credits.

Today the CFTC reminded market participants that Commission regulations require VCC issuers

to have rules requiring their market participants to keep records of their trading that include records of their activity in the underlying commodity and related derivatives markets. Designations Contract

Market participants are required, upon request, to make records of their trading in underlying VCC cash markets available to the DCM. These records also are subject to Commission inspection under applicable Commission recordkeeping rules.

I hope we feel like this forever

Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?

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Is it giving climate/crypto lawyer? ⚖️⛓️🔫

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting to regulate larger (i.e. annual volume of at least US$5m consumer payment transactions) nonbank companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps.

I’m a lawyer. Ask me about this ⚖️🪙

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_nprm-digital-payment-apps-lp-rule_2023-11.pdf

That may be so, but it is hard to separate the art from the artist.

48 countries gearing up to regulate bitcoin and other crypto under a new international tax framework. I’m a lawyer. Ask me about this. ⚖️ 📝

https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/secretary-general-mathias-cormann-welcomes-pledge-by-48-countries-to-implement-global-tax-transparency-standard-for-crypto-assets.htm

It’s been a very bad year for Effective Altruism, the cultural movement that aims to use “evidence and reason” to figure out the best ways to do the “most good.”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-altruism-is-a-welter-of-fraud-lies-exploitation-and-eugenic-fantasies/

View from my living room tonight. ♥️ SF

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MASS PSYCHOSIS: How An Entire Population Becomes Stupid & How To Get Ahead Of Everyone | Dan Ariely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q0fB-l4IRA

Everything worth anything takes sacrifice and discipline!