Rebuttal of GreenpeaceUSA Report on Bitcoin

Rebuttal of GreenpeaceUSA Report on Bitcoin

October 17, 2023Posted inArticles, 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?

Is Bitcoin good for money laundering?

September 27, 2023Posted inArticles, Security
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.

21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin
Chapter Zero

April 23, 2022Posted inArticles
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 ...