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"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere

Swan Bitcoin · 88.4K views · 2021-09-15 · 38:05

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 5 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2022

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CryptographyRenewables, batteries & storageClimate policy, solutions & debate
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bitcoin miningenergy consumptiongreen energylyn aldencryptocurrency

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nk1tz · 2021-09 · Strong recommendation

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. [VIDEO] Fix the money, fix the world.

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lumannnn · 2022-03 · Recommendation

[LINK] - "Bitcoin & Renewable Energy Transition - Bitcoin Incentivizes Green Energy" [LINK] - "Can Bitcoin Mining Save the Environment? with Troy Cross" [LINK] - "This Machine Greens" [VIDEO]

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Quindecillion · 2022-01 · Recommendation

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] * [VIDEO] * [LINK]

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