Coming up on Thursday, March 6th! 📣
HRF x PubKey #FreedomTech Series presents:
How #Bitcoin Brings About Social Change with Jason Maier
@cjasonmaier will discuss his research and advocacy with @HRF Research Associate @zacguignard including a focus on:
How bitcoin addresses inflation and wealth inequality, how it compares to the current financial system's effect on the world abroad and at home, and how it's being used as a tool for human rights and financial freedom.
This event is FREE and open to the public. 🙏🧡🍺
https://t.co/DQbs2VIgCj
IMF: Bitcoin is useless, it isn’t money, it doesn’t do anything
Also IMF: If you want to accept our loans, you cannot use Bitcoin
Hrm. What’s it gonna be?
MARA (@MARAHoldings) closed its Texas wind farm deal, using last-gen ASIC miners with 100% renewable energy. This is mining done right—reducing curtailment, extending hardware life, and pushing toward near net-zero operating costs.
A win for Bitcoin. A win for energy efficiency. A win for sustainability.
Spending #Bitcoin on my groceries? 🛒 See how easy it's done at @PicknPay in South Africa. I scan the QR code with the CryptoQR app and confirm in my @PhoenixWallet. Watch it in action!
Some 🔑takeaways from the heatpunk summit. 🧵
1. Heat reuse is the future.
The heat market is so vast, and mining is such a small energy consumer, that if we convert even a small percentage of dumb heat to smart heat, it suddenly dominates mining.
And it will.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced Satoshi chose to reference this front page in Bitcoin's genesis block very carefully
It's, obviously, a commentary on bailouts and money printing
But I think it's also a commentary on the warfare state that fiat helps enable
Three people testified against the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve:
1. Lobbyist from Sierra Club with a garbled metaphor of Ethereum as an artificially sweetened cookie.
2. Two altcoiners with an incoherent buzzword salad for AI post-quantum satellite utility graphs.
Onwards!
We are truly blessed to have @bitstein and @BitcoinPierre back behind the mics to educate the masses about bitcoin through the lens of Austrian economics.
Fundamentals are important and this is the best resource to learn about these concepts from first principles.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis says, “A #bitcoin reserve could be audited any time 24/7 with a basic computer.”
“It’s time to upgrade our reserves.” 🙌
BREAKING: The ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ bill in Texas has received a hearing date on February 18th - Thank you to @LtGovTX for making this bill a priority.