The science of habit forming: #5 of a series of 9 Ever had a habit you started to form but then didn't maintain? One of the biggest reasons that us humans don't form new habits is that there is a seed of conflict in the genesis of the habit we just tried to form. Understanding how to avoid sewing that seed is key to creating habits that you can maintain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47q9I2M6Ao4

The future of Bitcoin is bright. I don't believe this. I know this. This has nothing to do with the technology, the protocol, price, compelling events on the horizon or even the need. It is because of the people. The people who are doing the work, who are empowering their local communities, making it easier to get money back to their families, empowering businesses, improving their environment - week in week out using Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining as an excuse to do good in the world and help humanity is inspiring. This is neither rhetoric, nor theory. This is my synopsis of working with over 40 Bitcoin builders as a coach over the last 2 years. Specifically, every week I have the priviledge of facilitating a group of Bitcoin builders on a mastermind who are doing this work, and every one of them inspires everyone else on the group to go further, improve more, and impact deeper with their own Bitcoin mission. What we discuss is private. But the ripple of impact these Bitcoiners create is public. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network. It is strong because the source code is strong, and the nodes of the network are strong and it is protected by energy itself. But not only because of that. Bitcoin is strong because Bitcoiners are strong, resilient, anti-fragile, tenacious nodes of the network, standing up and helping our peers in the network, and prepared to make ourselves more robust nodes, because doing so serves the whole network.

4 of 9: The science of habit forming. This one is the least talked about ... but arguably the most powerful of all (The first 3 I posted on Nostr Mon->Wed if you missed them) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOJ_UyojkI

Great that you're seeing it too. So many inspiring Bitcoin projects, many of which are gaining legs!

"Bitcoin is used by criminals" Source: criminals

$500M financing of vented methane BTC mining - makes the entire BTC network carbon negative - removes 36M tonnes of CO2-e per year - is equal to planting 2.5B trees - further decentralises the Bitcoin network - shows the world that Bitcoin is an environmental force for good

France's center, left and right just did something they never do: agree on something And ... Bitcoin mining brought them together Bitcoin mining is not just a grid stabilizing force, it's a political stabilizing force kudos to INBi - Institut National de Bitcoin (France’s national Bitcoin institute), Bastien Desteuque and EBEA - who are producing great Bitcoin stories faster than I can document them! Full story: https://www.batcoinz.com/p/the-150-terawatt-hour-ghost

Some of the best responses I've got on social media has been from my non-Bitcoin related posts on Nostr. This current series is no exception. This is part #3 of the 9 rules of habit forming. If you missed the first two, it's in my post from earlier this week For context: I put this together for clients some years ago - and many used it to successfully develop new habits (and end old ones) so I decided to make it more widely available. Here's the third in the series (where I get completely upstaged part way through) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRe3LdAlCGA

JUST IN: new peer-reviewed research finds Bitcoin mining has the capacity to absorb 83% of the wind Ireland is forced to throw away, lifting wind farm revenues by 32%. This is probably the biggest wake-up call for grids around the world that are wasting large quantities of renewable energy, because the paper includes a head-to-head comparison with battery, finding 2 significant advantages, both which matter to the taxpayer. 1. No subsidy required: "Compared with battery storage, hydrogen electrolysis, or transmission reinforcement, the co-investment is privately financed and operationally market-driven" and "...without requiring physical network upgrades or regulatory subsidy." 2. No performance degradation "Unlike battery storage, mining incurs no round-trip efficiency losses or cycle degradation; unlike hydrogen electrolysis, it requires no downstream offtake infrastructure." In layman's terms, this means that a battery gives back less power than it takes, and wears out with every cycle. Hydrogen needs a pipeline and a buyer at the far end. Bitcoin mining simply pays to use otherwise wasted power on the spot and needs nothing more after that. Plus, Batteries, hydrogen and new wires are all paid for by the public. Bitcoin mining isn't. To summarize: Together with previous papers on renewable energy monetization using Bitcoin mining, this technology is looking increasingly like the only tax-neutral way to keep renewable energy transition targets on track (or get them back on track). The finding puts even more pressure on Ireland's neighbour, the UK, which continues to waste significant amounts of wind energy, to properly evaluate Bitcoin mining. This paper is doubly-significant because prior studies were done on deregulated grids like ERCOT (Texas). This study shows that Bitcoin mining's benefits extend to islanded regulated grids with high renewable penetration. The study comes at a time where Ireland is currently wasting11.4% of its available wind (source: https://cms.eirgrid.ie/sites/default/files/publications/Annual-Renewable-Constraint-and-Curtailment-Report-2025-V1.0.pdf). Its Climate Action Plan targets <7% curtailment by 2030. But an independent estimate says it's currently going in the opposite direction, projected to increase to16% by 2030, even with storage and demand response built (source: https://www.seai.ie/sites/default/files/2025-02/dess-background-material-2024%E2%80%932040.pdf). The paper is published in Energy Economics which has an impact factor of 13.5 (top 2% of academic journals) Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109454

As I wrote yesterday, Twitter derates any post that I make which is designed to help people in an area not specifically related to Bitcoin mining. Nostr doesn't and Nostr has been telling me that this content is valued, so I'll be sharing more of it. This next second video of nine in a short series about the 9 rules of habit forming. If you missed the first one, it's in my post from yesterday. For context: I put this together for my clients several years ago - but it proven so useful and so many of them did successfully develop new habits (and end old ones) that I decided to make it more widely available. So here's the second in the series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMDo-Zm9TIM

When the CEO changes, the culture automatically changes. So what changes the CEO? Not a leadership retreat, not workshops, not even coaching by itself, but modelling of a different way of leading, week-in-week-out A while ago on my mastermind, one of the CEOs reported back in his win-sharing that the organization of his company changed Nobody from his company had attended anything I run. Just the CEO, who sat in my mastermind with five other founders. We never talked culture, 360 surveys, fly-on-the-wall sessions of his office environment. No 1:1 session where I said “Hey, let’s look at how you work with your team this week”. And yet his company changed. This is verbatim what he said about where the culture change had come: "A lot of the culture of what we're starting to bring through the coaching and what I've learned from everyone in this group as well and yourself, Daniel, is starting to permeate through the culture of the business." I know workshops by themselves don't work because I spent years running corporate training workshops. I facilitated sessions for banks, telcos and dairy companies. Thousands of people went through those rooms. It had its value. But it could never come close to what a peer group can do for culture change, behavior change, habit change or mindset change. See, a workshop distributes material to everybody at once, and material sits still. Nobody in that room has to become the carrier, and there is often no follow up and no leadership change. As a result: a lot of people who know what to do … and don’t do it. Whereas the leader in the coaching group is the only carrier there is. He cannot hand his company a handout. The only thing available to him is his ability to “Be the change”. If he runs his own meetings differently, his team then experiences the change by example. In truth, great content is overrated. Or perhaps better to say, the value of the peer-group is underrated. When you show people what excellence looks like by example in a high performing peer group week in, week out, and they become a different leader by osmosis. By contrast, relying on content and your own personal willpower to achieve a goal without sorting out your peer group is like watering a garden planted in sand. You can still grow a garden, but it takes a lot more time and energy, with a higher risk that you’ll get frustrated and give up. Who is your peer group? And do then drain you, support you, or inspire you to new heights?