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Every time I watch this guy speak, I come away feeling more and more energised about bitcoin and its potential impact on a fairer, more financially inclusive society. A future where Lightning payments are accepted everywhere is a lot closer than you might think.
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Sorry! I also have a little ETH... considered selling it after Vitalik's recent existential crisis... but yes. Thread change required.
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Or just buy 10k worth of Bitcoin #yolo
I know you're joking, but it's worth considering doing this with some of it... Set up an autobuy over a few months then forget about it. Some of my buys from 2020 are up +330% (and some from 2021 are down -50%...).
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Can I borrow your crystal ball when you're done with it?
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Always be buying. But bought more at 29,500 a couple hours ago. Couldn't resist.
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You know of these guys? Bought this 4/3 suit last year and absolutely love it. Quality is next level and really well made (plus it's responsibly made, if that's your bag).
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Unpopular but wholly valid and balanced. I suppose the main thing that keeps me interested is the potential bitcoin as a technology has for solving a shit load of the modern economy's (and those without ready access to standard financial instruments') problems. Much like all new tech, it's derided until it becomes unfathomable how we ever lived without it.
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Two 1MW hydropower plants hardly make a dent. https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index estimates the current Bitcoin network power demand at 15.75GW, so they are only providing 0.013% of the Bitcoin energy requirements.
My council recycling box hardly makes a dent either, but I still sort my rubbish, fill it, and place it outside each week... Granted there's no financial incentive to do so, but the cumulative impact makes it worth doing.
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Haha! Love the caveat.
And whether some of that energy is renewable or not is immaterial. If Bitcoin didn't exist then that renewable energy it is consuming would mean less non-renewables would have the be burned in its place. Until the world is nigh on 100% renewable then the environmental cost of Bitcoin is, IMHO, unjustifiable.
That's not strictly true. Bitcoin mining currently uses a higher mix of sustainable energy than any major country or industry. And as for bitcoin not existing to 'free up' renewables, miners are actually exploiting many energy sources that would otherwise be wasted / can't currently be stored and converted into useable energy by other means. In Costa Rica, two hydropower plants came back online (plus the associated jobs) to power mining rigs after previously being shuttered due to lack of infrastructure. Surely that's a positive?
EDIT: Forgot the Costa Rica story source: https://www.dw.com/en/bitcoin-can-cryptocurrency-mining-ever-be-environmentally-friendly/a-60818440#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20until%20recently%2C%20renewables,of%20it%20cheap%20Chinese%20hydropower.
Not really sure what you're getting at here? Whether he thinks the NHS is a shit idea or not, he's still working on an incredible tool of value exchange that anyone with a smartphone could theoretically access (and Strike isn't the only app to do it).