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"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere

Swan Bitcoin5 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2022
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documentary · general · 2021–2022 on HN

A documentary from Swan Bitcoin exploring Bitcoin's relationship with energy, featuring Lyn Alden and others, and arguing that mining is a net positive for the environment and not wasteful.

Bitcoin advocates on HN cite it to rebut energy-consumption and waste criticisms, though it is an advocacy piece from a Bitcoin company.

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@nk1tz2021-09 · in “Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem”

Bitcoin is a "machine that greens". It will drive sustainable energy development in an emergent free market fashion and take us to a type 1 civilization. ▶ this video Fix the money, fix the world.

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@lumannnn2022-03 · in “Ask HN: Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?”

link - "Bitcoin & Renewable Energy Transition - Bitcoin Incentivizes Green Energy" link - "Can Bitcoin Mining Save the Environment? with Troy Cross" link - "This Machine Greens" ▶ this video

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@Quindecillion2022-01 · in “Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations”

Bitcoin's energy consumption is a feature, not a bug. The amount of energy consumed by the network will continue to increase, as it should, as it secures more wealth. A currency that's based on energy has been speculated about for decades, such as by Buckminster Fuller, which he called the Kilowatt Dollar: link Bitcoin is the first attempt at such a money that might actually work. link If you're curious about the connection between Bitcoin and the energy sector these are worth looking at. * link * link * ▶ this video * link

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@easymovet2021-09 · in “Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem”

Once you find out you'll panic about not having enough. The benefits are apparent when analyzed from the perspective of money as a technology that enables strong property rights defended by cryptography. Robert Breedlove does a podcast on the nature of money which great. This video also does a great job of addressing the "waste" by elaborating on "unforgable costliness" : ▶ this video All of these "uses energy per transaction" people are being underserved by their news sources on the development of the lightning network, which is like going from a LAN with global broadcast to NATed and routed TCP/IP (Bitcoin is a global broadcast layer and lightning is a transaction bundling / routing layer/network). I mean an entire country has adopted it and we still have folks on hacker news missing the disruption for the trees!

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@Offpics2021-09 · in “China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’”

You should educate yourself. Energy consumption is an old myth and cryptocurrency pushes a lot of innovations in this field. There is a great documentary on this ▶ this video .

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