It is sad that EU regulators and public opinion are listening to #Greenpeace. This should be exposed properly.

If you are a #Bitcoin miner, don’t abandon this propaganda. Help us, end-users and human rights activists to defend bitcoin on the ongoing attack on PoW in the #EU.

One of the goals of the EU bodies, particularly the European Central Bank (#ECB), for such an approach is to use “a policy tool that disincentivises investing in such assets from the outset and prevents the build-up of transition risk through crypto-assets in the banking system” until 2025.

As end-users of Bitcoin for fundraising and payment instruments, Open Dialogue Foundation concerns that such a policy would directly affect both us and the Bitcoin industry, which services we and other activists use. Especially because the European Commission wants to “collaborate internationally with different standardisation bodies to develop the energy-efficiency label” for PoW:

“States shall implement targeted and proportionate measures to lower, and must be ready to stop, the electricity consumption of crypto-asset miners, in line with the proposed Council Regulation on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices.”

Watching Hacker News completely miss Bitcoin has been a fairly interesting experience over the last 12 or so years.

In part I think their anger is related to the collapsing returns within tech industry itself. "Silicon Valley Life" was the former gold rush that is now sunsetting....the industry has metastasized into a handful of kingdoms and growth is falling into traditional late-stage growth curves.

They should have seen it coming - and they know that. The internet developing its own native currency that displaces traditional system was an obvious tech development, but somehow they missed it.

But there is another - deeper change - that has happen. The "tech industry" itself has moved from being a very libertarian place in late 80s / 90s - to now a deeply state worshiping place. It’s quite ironic (and they seem completely blind to it) that 99% of the tech they worship, was developed out of a mistrust of central authorities.

Denizens of Nostr, please give a warm welcome to a fellow GrapheneOS Community Team member:

THE LOGO

I'm going to start promoting this because people keep asking for something that:

- is simple & recognisable

- literally anyone can draw in 3 seconds

- is NOT an ostrich

- shows that we're talking about a network

- fits nicely next to our competition's icons (Instagram, X, Facebook, YouTube, Google...)

- Pairs up well with the Bitcoin "B"

This logo has been doing the job for me for months and I still like it.