I know of 2 prime ministers, 3 other govt ministers, 4 leaders of political parties this year who've met with members of the Bitcoin community (me, or someone else) to discuss how Bitcoin can solve an energy problem Bitcoin&energy is the conversation they're ready to have

Just finished keynote in Helsinki on the (real) energy that powers Bitcoin. No data. No charts. Instead I told 5 stories ... and based on the feedback it was probably my best talk yet.

I've tweeted a couple of times that Bitcoin wins when Bitcoiners become as anti-fragile as Bitcoin itself. Here's 120 seconds on what this means, and how we start to do that.

Bitcoin volatility mirrors the inherent volatility of life. And what looks like the down are often not so. For example, without Greenpeace USA's campaign against Bitcoin, people like me would never have come to Bitcoin in the first place. Fighting Greenpeace USA was like running up a hill in rarefied air. Everyone who did it returned to earth with a bigger lung capacity to advocate Bitcoin better than we could have: we had better messages, more practice dealing with critics, more resilience, and were more connected to each other as a team.

In the last 3 months we've gone from one landfill project in the pipeline in one country with us struggling to find a Bitcoin mining company wanting to take it on, to multiple landfill projects in multiple countries with multiple Bitcoin mining companies wanting to be involved, and landfill consortiums saying "we know we can't sell that power to the grid and that Bitcoin mining is our only realistic option, when are you doing site a visit?" Probably nothing

In 2006 I made a decision which meant I was working much more behind-the-scenes, but my impact went up about 10x At the start of this year, I made a very similar decision, with the hope it would have a similar impact on the lives of people I care about working for Bitcoin

Issue #53 of the Bitcoin adoption letter is out. Check your email and spam filters. https://www.batcoinz.com/p/what-hashrate-did Included - Analysis on how far through the BTC->AI datacenter Transition we are - 2 reasons the hashrate decline has been good for thinks Bitcoiners care about - Pretty charts based on new data - And something different: what this could meet for trading hashprice and hashrate

“Knowing the Bitcoin→AI transition consequence on hashrate” is to trading hashprice as “knowing about which large pension fund are about to allocate AUM to Bitcoin”, is to trading Bitcoin price. Tomorrow's newsletter will have a section and some pretty charts about this.

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY5vupruG7M

Luke and Brooke Cortese are Bitcoin legends The rate at which they are orangepilling both businesses and everyday users is something we've not seen before.

Why are so many of the inspiring stories about Bitcoin adoption coming out of Africa and Latin America?