Rebuttal of GreenpeaceUSA Report on Bitcoin

Rebuttal of GreenpeaceUSA Report on Bitcoin

October 17, 2023Posted inArticle, Energy
Daniel Batten: in July 2023, GreenpeaceUSA published a report “Investing in Bitcoin’s Climate Pollution”. My rebuttal argues that the report recycles many already widely-debunked claims about Bitcoin, uses unsubstantiated fear about “what might happen” rather than evidence to influence readers, and repeatedly avoids important contextualizing information in order to present a skewed and in many cases false appraisal of Bitcoin.

Is Bitcoin good for money laundering?

September 27, 2023Posted inArticle, Video
After Hamas’s brutal surprise attack and massacre of Israeli civilians, policymakers are searching for the most effective ways to fight terrorist organizations. They can take an important lesson from something that recently happened to Hamas when it tried to use bitcoin to finance its operations.

Bitcoin and Moral Values

May 22, 2022Posted inArticle
This is why Satoshi chose to build a system with an unchanging soul. This is why the rules have been "set in stone" since day one. (Post with Frederich Hayek's famous 1984 video).

21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin
Chapter Zero

April 23, 2022Posted inArticle
From Gigi's 21 Ways Project. "Above all, Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological innovation that isn't really about technology. You can't touch it, yet it is hard money. You can't see it, yet it will show you a vision of the future ...

21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin
Introduction

April 23, 2022Posted inArticle
Gigi's introduction to his 21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin project. "Bitcoin is different things to different people". The first time I’ve heard this sentence, I immediately realized its profound truth. How you look at Bitcoin – and how you understand and describe it – depends largely on your view of the world ...

Why Bitcoin is Not a Ponzi Scheme: Point by Point.

December 26, 2021Posted inArticle
LYN ALDEN,  NOV 1, 2021 @Swanbitcoin - One of the concerns I’ve seen aimed at Bitcoin is the claim that it’s a Ponzi scheme. The argument suggests that because the Bitcoin network is contin­u­ally reliant on new people buying in, that eventu­ally it will collapse in price as new buyers are exhausted. So, this article takes a serious look at the concern by comparing and contrasting Bitcoin to systems that have Ponzi-like charac­ter­is­tics, to see if the claim holds up. The short version is that Bitcoin does not meet the defin­i­tion of a Ponzi scheme in either narrow or broad scope, but let’s dive in to see why that’s the case.