Second order effects of #Bitcoin mining include, but are not limited to:
- Less pipeline construction because it's easier, faster and cheaper to deploy a digital pipeline
- Less methane leak because miners will show up and consume gas that would otherwise be flared (con't)
- More efficient drilling because producers don't have to depend on a singular rev stream
- An incentive to produce more renewable energy sources because there is now a consumer of last resort
- A more distributed society as towns get erected around mining operations (con't)
- The big one no one likes to talk about, a severe reduction in capital misallocation enabled by easy money that has led to severe energy waste
Proof of Work with a baked in difficulty adjustment securing the scarcest asset man has ever come into contact with is the best thing to ever happen to the environment.
God willing, we will reduce pollution caused by waste to nothing before I gasp my last breath.
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Individuals who clamor on about Bitcoin's dwindling block subsidy and claim that Bitcoin's long-term security is in question lack vision and an understanding of Jevons Paradox.
Yes, Bitcoin's fee market may be paltry at the moment due to better use of the blockchain as individuals and businesses learn how to use block space more efficiently. I will concede this.
However, one needs to look to where the puck is going.
Bitcoin isn't on top of the public's mind like it was in the Fall/Winter of 2017.
If number continues to go up like it has consistently done for the last 11 years, this should stoke activity in the fee market as more people are dragged into Bitcoin's gravitational pull.
Imagine growing up with the Internet, see everything that has been enabled by it over the last 30 years, and dismissing Bitcoin because it’s too ambitious or “the governments won’t let it happen”.
We live in 2019, people. A scarce digital money gaining traction isn’t that far fetched. Welcome to the future we dreamed about growing up.
Still thinking about this. It's crazy that people think a digital money isn't going to happen. We're sending unmanned rockets to space and landing them on little squares in the ocean. lol, Bitcoin is an inevitable progression of technology and our interaction with it.
As most of you freaks are probably aware of by now, Julian Assange has been dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and is en route to the "Land of the Free" to face charges for helping Chelsea Manning break into a classified computer system.
Waking up to this news produced flashbacks to years ago when Wikileaks was a more prominent figure in the news.
1/ After reading his incredible [private] whitepaper and having a few discussions on the subject with @parkeralewis, here’s a thread on the utter incompetence + inconsistency of the Federal Reserve leading up to and following 2008.
2/ The two decades leading up to 2008 saw debt in the US nearly quintuple from $11.2T to $52.5T with mortgage and financial debt leading the charge.
3/ Throughout this period, the Fed reacted to recessionary business cycles by aggressively lowering interest rates (Fed funds rate); from ~9% to ~3% in ‘90 to ‘91 and ~6% to ~1% in ‘00 to ‘03 with rates NEVER reaching the levels of the prior lowering cycle.