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Wilhelm von Freiheitsberg
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2024-10-07 20:29:14

Wilhelm von Freiheitsberg on Nostr: It still surprises me how little people know about Bitcoin despite so many content ...

It still surprises me how little people know about Bitcoin despite so many content creators in the ecosystem. Are we failing to communicate, or people are just being intellectual dishonest or blind by ideology?
If human civilization survives the climate crisis, historians will look back at a facility that throws away 300MW of energy as heat, 24/7, by burning fossil fuels (which also generates waste heat) in order to participate in a tulip craze, and be unable to fathom what we were thinking.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113266437383175019



Regarding the environment, Bitcoin is helping many places to transition to renewable energy!
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-renewable-energy-transition
If we speak about "making tech bros get rich", Bitcoin is extremely important to poor communities in Africa without access to banking!
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/10/how-african-refugees-used-bitcoin-to-build-their-own-grassroots-economy/
I am not even talking about CBDCs and the impact of it on Human Rights.

Perhaps I am speaking to the walls, since it's more ideological blindness than real concern about the environment or people.
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