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scientific paper printer goes brrr

„Overall, the paper suggests a re-evaluation of the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining, highlighting its potential role as a facilitator for renewable energy expansion, and decarbonization“

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/14/3/35

Via their nonce fingerprint, it’s apparently possible to identify miner generations and determine their share of the hashrate.

cool 😮

and very useful for calculating ₿ energy use

https://twitter.com/karimhelpme/status/1668592291962056704?s=46&t=YaVfajjMg__2Zuz6Tivjug

“They couldn’t take anything with them – no money, no gold, not even a mobile phone. Anything valuable would have been a serious threat to their life,”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/07/05/how-bitcoin-helps-civilians-escape-the-war-in-sudan/

Bavaria just seized two banking accounts of the German climate activist group and „criminal association” named Letzte Generation.

Who stopped accepting ₿ donations a while ago. Now they learn.

Ifo Geschäftsklimaindex: „Die akademischen Kaffeesatzleser befragen die Glaskugelbesitzer“

Volker Pispers

Dear leftist,

monetary expansion is a tool for redistribution. And not the good kind. The diametral opposite.

Learn the basic mechanisms.

- another leftist

46:15 @ 780,000

If you plug in an electric vehicle it becomes a “zero emissions” car

If you plug in a Bitcoin miner it’s a “climate catastrophe”

While Bitcoins spot price is volatile, its energy consumption is anti-volatile and price smoothing 💸🔋🪫💵 💡

Contrary to a Cambridge University study, Bitcoin mining leverages 52.6% sustainable energy

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-uses-mostly-sustainable-energy

AML doesn’t even work!

- AML policy intervention has less than 0.1% impact on criminal finances

- compliance costs exceed recovered criminal funds more than 100x

- banks, taxpayers and ordinary citizens are penalized more than criminal enterprises

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1725366