Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Bitcoin Mining: A Greener Grid Than the US Energy Grid
I think it's going to succeed. It could fail for a variety of reasons, but it's small relatively today. Bitcoin mining itself has no emissions. It's the energy that's used to power it. So we have to look at what exactly is powering it. Never before have humans been able to take advantage of stranded energy for economic purposes in the same way? You can also very importantly make a lot of money mining Bitcoin off of methane emissions from both gas fields and landfills. We're just starting to uncover what that's going to mean. But basically Bitcoin could run for the next 50 years off of landfills alone, off of just the emissions of landfill alone
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