Dr. Ammous is a leading researcher, communicator, and educator in the field of Bitcoin, and he has advised corporations on bitcoin strategy, and helped many investors with performing their due diligence on Bitcoin.
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LYN ALDEN, August 2021, updated December 2021 - Bitcoin’s energy usage is a rounding error as far as global energy usage is concerned. And I mean that literally; when scientists estimate that the world uses a certain amount of energy in a given year, they can easily be off by a couple percentage points in either direction, let alone a couple tenths of a percent. Bitcoin is estimated to use less than one tenth of one percent.
The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) provides an up-to-date estimate of the Bitcoin network’s daily electricity load. The underlying techno-economic model is based on a bottom-up approach initially developed by Marc Bevand in 2017 that uses the profitability threshold of different types of mining equipment as the starting point.
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Preston Pysh talks with energy executive, Shaun Connell. They discuss how Bitcoin strengthens the grid and acts as a buffer to consume surplus baseload energy generation.
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).
We interact with Bitcoin in a completely different way we interact with regular fiat money. So if you’re new to Bitcoin you have to be careful and take some time to learn how to buy, store and make transactions.
It is recommended to start with a really small amount.