Excellent news.

Every time I fly, I check the airport bookshop, to see if there are any books on bitcoin. For the first time today there was one - in Oslo. Would prefer a different focus, but heigh ho. I'll take it. Little step by little step.

Been there!

Yes.

The European Mining Summit taking place in Helsinki on 23rd September - a collaboration between and - is going to be awesome. We are building bridges between the worlds of mining, energy, and academia. Once energy and academia understand the potentials of flexible data centres to help solve the current problems faced by the European energy infrastructure, they will themselves push for the necessary regulatory framework to facilitate mining in Europe. One step at a time. The first panel on Europe's Energy Transition, moderated by , is the first of its kind - bringing together miners and 'net zero' proponents on one stage, to debate who should get to choose the winners of Europe's 'flexible demand' battle - the regulators or the market? Communism or capitalism? What does history teach us?

Hope you asked him if he still thinks we don't need !

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Sorry to hear that xxx

Think of the lost maths opportunity for young children spending their first coins, if its all just tap a card!

I guess once the author defined what s/he deems worthy moral causes - 'To devote your working life to the great challenges of our time, whether that’s the climate crisis or corruption, gross inequality or the nextpandemic'- my alarm bells were ringing.