An Open Letter To My Children: Energy And Bitcoin
A heartfelt message from a father to his children in regards to the life-energy saving properties of Bitcoin.Dear Jen and Matt,As we reflect on Independence Day this year I was inspired to write this letter. If you’re going to put your life savings into something that will hold its value — energy — across time and space it helps to understand your choices. You can think of each hour of your labor — your energy — as having been traded for U.S. dollars when you work. So you’re storing your labor in U.S. dollars. All else being equal, if I work an hour and I’m able to save the money I was....
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Prominent African bitcoin campaigner Alakanani Itireleng is turning her attention to charity, appealing for bitcoin donations to Botswana's SOS Children's Villages. Founded in 1980, SOS Children's Villages care for orphaned, destitute and abandoned children. According to the website, these villages "aim to develop children into responsible and independent adults who will have the inner strength to cope with the challenges of the future." It is affiliated with the United States Department of Labor, with which it works to care for children who have been exploited as child labor. Among its....
Jason King replies to transparency questions about Sean’s Outpost. On November 20, Sean’s Outpost Founder Jason King published an open letter that included the charity’s statements and answers to recent questions about how the Outpost is handling donated funds. The letter was in response to Ben Doemberg’s questions on transparency and accountability published on November 14 on Let’s Talk Bitcoin in an article titled, “An Open Letter to Jason King of Seans Outpost.” Doemberg’s open letter received just shy of 9,000 views in just over one week, and King’s reply has 2,610 in the first two days.
U.S. legislators suspect cryptomining is “problematic” for energy use and emissions, while Paraguay is ready to give the crypto industry, including miners, incentives. Democratic legislators from both houses of the United States Congress have sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Energy Department (DOE) to inform them of their findings on the energy consumption of cryptocurrency mining and asking the agencies to require mining to report their emissions and energy use. Meanwhile, the Paraguayan Senate, the upper house of that country’s legislature, has passed a....
Dear Ross, My name is Jamie Redman, and I’ve written many stories about your life because I write about Bitcoin every day. But more importantly to me I’ve written about your experience and life on occasion because I believe in what you were doing and think of you as a pioneer. Because I’ve shown passionate support for you and your family, I’ve also....