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Daniel Batten
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Focusing 2026 on coaching Bitcoin builders and leaders newsletter: danielbatten.substack.com

Susie brutally, honestly exposing the shortcomings of a once reputable media company nostr:note1sfxja0lpcc00rzh7dp8rupfq7qfvcwhwjqz3tm2c4egux0c0wy4szrsmgw

New Report: fiat is the preferred tool for 99.67% of cybercrime, measured in annual losses.

What Gary Gensler and others say: "Bitcoin is the preferred tool for ransomware"

What they don't tell you

1. Ransomware ($20 billion losses p.a) is 0.33% of cybercrime ($6 Trillion of losses p.a)

2. The US Treasuries own Money Laundering reports say fiat is by far the preferred vehicle for the online financial crime

Report and data sources 👇

https://batcoinz.com/do-cybercriminals-prefer-fiat-or-bitcoin-the-data-is-clear/

Sovereign wealth Fund adoption could drive the next bull run

21k views which is a nice number for the interview Nik and I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgW3drkjQ4&t=25s

Life is full of surprises. I've just had a personal win I never imagined, my first time as an co-author of a piece of peer reviewed academic work.

The article, in Journal of Cleaner Production (Impact rating: 9.7) shows Bitcoin mining can profitably reduce landfill methane, where other technologies cannot

It’s also 10 out of the last 11 papers on Bitcoin mining showing environmental benefits. Great work Murray Rudd and Dennis Porter who did most of the work in this paper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652624029652?via%3Dihub

Www.artofliving.org.

I tried out a few meditation and breathing techniques. This was the one that stuck and resonated with me personally.

Yes. SKY breathing followed by Art of Living meditation daily.

Here’s my interview with Pomp on Sovereign Wealth Fund Adoption. The topic seems to be generating a lot of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFDRzs2lbEY

Replying to Avatar walker

The University of Wyoming just launched a Bitcoin Research Institute ⚡️

nostr:npub1jddnc9ma408dey575wcsqhg5jtc2n7765y4gdnnrswlwgqnnat7swe4s60 , Director of the University of Wyoming #Bitcoin Research Institute, joins nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u to explain why they started it and what they plan to do.

"We think that we'll be able to help quite a lot of #Bitcoin research by bringing these Bitcoiners out of the closet and also by helping the people who aren't Bitcoiners but do want to work on Bitcoin topics, make sure that they don't make mistakes."

https://youtu.be/a-Y6L8UE32U

One of the best interviews I’ve seen. You’re both doing such important work.

Who’s coming to Amsterdam?

This is not a bad 5min TL;DR if you don’t have the 39mins to go thru the full podcast.

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/sovereign-wealth-funds-bitcoin-148000/amp/

Thanks Steve. I’ve learn to slow down a bit over the years, in speech and action. Coming from Nz and riding motorcycles was a recipe for going too fast in each respect !

Just did this podcast on the Bitcoin Layer with Nik Bhatia.

My work doesn’t normally get more than a few thousand views. But this one had 17k views - in the top 10 most viewed out of 275 on the Bitcoin Layer channel.

Thanks for all those who took the time to watch it, and for the very encouraging comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgW3drkjQ4&t=621s

Of the IMF's proposed 85% tax on crypto-mining, The Bitcoinist

( @bitcoinist on Twitter, not on Nostr) just wrote:

“The suggestion by the IMF is in the right direction"

Source: https://bitcoinist.com/imf-proposes-85-tax-increase-for-crypto-mining/

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Issue #18 of the ESG Forecast is out. Check your inboxes and spam filters

https://www.batcoinz.com/p/should-bitcoin-mining-companies-only

“To know and not to do is not to know”

10 years ago I made a life-changing decision.

I was coaching the leaders and sales teams of large corporates. I’d worked with major corporates including most of the country’s largest banks and Telcos. But a big shift was about to happen.

I never forget the moment. I was in the office of the L&D Manager of one of those corporates. He asked if we could come back and do some “refresher” sales training. For context, 2 years earlier, we’d run a 5-day sales and mindset training session that had yielded exceptional sales results and won a number of awards.

“So what happened after that sales training?” I asked. As an associate, I didn’t see the long term results. Nor did the company that provided the training specialise in embedding change: it doesn’t fit the business model of most training companies because each day you book out time for an hour long piece of coaching is a day you can’t book them out as a trainer at a much higher rate.

He shuffled in his seat a little uncomfortably. “Well”, he proffered. “We had great intentions, and don’t get me wrong, the uplift in sales was enough to pay for all your training easily. But after a few months people started going back to their old habits, and those people who were supposed to support the changes got deployed onto new projects. So that’s why we thought some refresher training would be timely.”

Within 6 months, I’d stopped all corporate training. My last illusion that I was creating any lasting impact had been removed. I was grateful to him for shattering my illusion.

I knew what I wanted to do, but I had no idea how to do it.

But then I realized I did know what to do. It was to do something I’d already done that had worked.

While corporate training wasn’t my life’s purpose, it was rewarding because I learnt a lot of skills that I was able to repurpose into my own coaching years later. Plus the many hours of facilitating helped me hone my craft. Kind of like the Beatles playing Hamburg gigs before they took the world stage.

I had only gotten that far in the first place because after leaving my corporate job, I got my own coach who helped me get into doing what would eventually become my life’s work.

So I used the same strategy. I got a coach to help me get out of corporate training, and into whatever I wanted to do - even though I wasn’t sure what that was.

One of the first questions she asked was “Who do you really want to work with”. At the time it was technology entrepreneurs (and that still is one of the communities of people I serve). But what I said was “Tech entrepreneurs, but there’s no business model doing that. They are cash-strapped startups”. She smiled. She challenged my limiting beliefs. And we built a new model that brought top coaching (not just mentoring) for the first time in the world to founders of early stage tech companies. That decision to get a coach, doing something I already knew worked, changed the direction of my life and that of many others I coached. And because they consistently applied what they learned, they never needed “refresher” training.

Sometimes we fail to use the same strategies that have worked for us in the past, believing that we need to continually create new strategies. Not so. Much of the work I do with clients involves mining their experience for things they have already done and stopped, or are doing inconsistently, and making those winning strategies they already know both contemporary and consistent.

The results have been incredible. If you want more peace, and you’ve already experienced it through meditation, restart meditating. If you want to feel more energy on a daily basis and already know that when you exercise regularly you feel more energy, recommit to daily exercise. If you have a dream you haven’t watered for a while, but you already know that when you give attention to it daily it grows, start giving it your daily attention again. And if you know that doing this with a coach creates faster, more consistent results, get a coach.

The ego loves complexity. The mind loves what’s new. But most of our answers are found in the simple application of the already-known. To know and not to do is not to know.

Our analysis of the NYTimes report of a China mining ban shows it was falsely reported.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-mining-was-never-banned-in-china