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Square’s Bitcoin Mining Mythology Sometimes I wonder, if the work I do is longer needed. When I started in the space in 2017/18 most educational content was done by podcasters, enthusiasts and advocates. Now that more and more companies come into the space and exchanges are maturing, they also produce great content. Square has published a Bitcoin Mythology - this time about mining.
And how we could use bitcoin to finance solar-energy:
- Spend 0.5% of the #bitcoin market cap on 51.85 GWp of solar power, and you’ll meet the annual 77.782 TWh energy needs of the #bitcoin mining network. #letsdoitalready — abecambridge (@abecambridge) March 10, 2021
You can buy a solar-panel for as little as 5 USD. Sun Exchange is opening access to solar for anyone and you can earn bitcoin in return. I put my money where my mouth is.
- The #Bitcoin network mines 900 BTC per day from 0.213 TWh of energy. 900 BTC can finance 70MW of solar power plant. 70MW of solar will generate 2.651 TWh of electricity. That’s 12 times as much energy as it took to mine the BTC in the first place, which still exists. #Magic. — abecambridge (@abecambridge) March 10, 2021
Just bought solar cells to offset my carbon footprint AND I will earn returns in #Bitcoin in the largest #crowdsourcing campaign in Africa so far. Fantastic project in #Zimbabwe by @TheSunExchange. My interview with CEO and founder @abecambridge will be released next Thursday. pic.twitter.com/K4ZLHTuJxp
— Anita🏼
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“Sun Exchange allows micro ownership of the solar panels. And there were children in the Stellenbosch Waldorf school who were purchased solar panels by their parents. And they’re earning Bitcoin once per month from them. So you’ve got kids who are growing up, earning Bitcoin, powering their own school and know that solar energy works.” — Abe Cambridge
If only all the people, who care so much about the energy consumption of #Bitcoin would fight so strongly against the Petrodollar and the war machines. https://t.co/pCI1iu9ape
— Anita
It goes to see, if this topic will pop-up in the coming years. I guess it will. Although I haven’t heard many comparisons with the tulip bubble recently. Might be because, the big players are coming in.
No, just because the price of bitcoin is 60k you haven’t missed the bus!Morgan Stanley is only ALLOWING its wealthier clients access to the volatile asset. Does it get any sillier?#Bitcoin is permissionless. If you’re not rich, get some bitcoin now and hold your own keys. No need for intermediaries who tell you what you’re allowed to do! pic.twitter.com/VDnl0yTzi4
— Anita
Everyone that buys #bitcoin feels like they “missed the bus” pic.twitter.com/rH1f5GFZEG
— Documenting Bitcoin(@DocumentingBTC) March 12, 2021
You can still front-run the financial institutions and banks, the people who are responsible for the greatest financial crisis in 2008! They are buying into Bitcoin, which is thought to be an alternative to the current system. Do it, before they do it and start educating yourself about self-custody.
I’m writing my book on this topic at the moment. It will be called (L)earn Bitcoin. I want to publish it in April. If you feel you can contribute, through proof-reading, adding information, or something else please reply.
Credits: https://twitter.com/RD_btc
In case you wonder what Central Bank Digital Currencies are about, and think that they might be a good thing, I urge you to listen to the General Manager of the Bank of International Settlements, which is owned by central banks. He is literally saying that it will give them full control over, who is using a 100 dollar bill. CBDCs will give central banks the power to enforce negative interest, automatically deduct taxes and surveillance over every day purchases. This is madness. This massive control is taking away our privacy. Bitcoin is through it’s uncensorability and coming privacy improvements our only chance for financial freedom.
In case it wasn’t obvious to you yet, here’s the head of the Bank of International Settlements clarifying that the difference between cash and CBDCs is that the former provides privacy while the latter gives the central bank “absolute control” 🥶 pic.twitter.com/pBm7aKxnjJ
— Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) March 19, 2021
SIM jacking attacks are easy and happen rather often in the crypto space. Now there are even services that allow attackers to send messages from your number. Use Google Authenticator instead.
As in every bull market a growing number of scammers is successfully ripping of people. Very often through giveaway scams. Don’t fall for that, if it sounds to good to be true, it is to good to be true. Nobody is giving away money.
#Bitcoin scam alert in #Zimbabwe
— Anita
Whenever someone promises huge returns and shows off in nice offices, it‘s a scam.
Educate yourself first: https://t.co/wYNdH4AQrD https://t.co/vAqANjK2tm
Source: @BitcoinMemeHub
…through the transparency of Bitcoin it is possible to analyse data and trends very easily. This chart shows “Coin Days Destroyed”. Coin Days are the period how long coins have not been moved. As you can see, the red bars indicate that people sold their coins to make profit and now the bar is blue, indicating that people are holding again. Which can be a sign for the price going up.
Monthly Binary Coin Days Destroyed
— Rafael Schultze-Kraft (@n3ocortex) March 14, 2021
The number of days per month in which more coin days were destroyed than on average.
Yes, we are in a bull market.
Yes, profits have been taken.
Yes, seems to be cooling off again — bullish!
(Note: current month is still incomplete)#Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/zVbbLiyvyx
With this outlook and some content recommendations I wish you a happy weekend! Next weeks guest is Edan Yago of Sovryn, a DeFi platform on top of Bitcoin.
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