EIA Attack on Bitcoin Miners Brian Morgenstern SLP552

Brian Morgenstern, Head of Public Policy of Riot Platforms joins me to talk about the latest attack on Bitcoin miners: 

Is Bitcoin mining a partisan issue? 

The EIA “Survey”

Falsehoods on grid stability and emissions

False Emergency

What to do about it

Links:

X: @MorgensternNJ 

Thread https://twitter.com/MorgensternNJ/status/1754634147232977246

X: @TXblockchain_ 

Sen. Lummis declares the survey to be ‘absurd’

Joint statement by the Chamber of Digital Commerce & Texas Blockchain Council opposing the survey: Industry Statement on EIA’s Emergency Survey  - Chamber of Digital Commerce (digitalchamber.org)

Sponsors:

Swan.com (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Mempool.space

Stephan Livera links:

Follow me on X: @stephanlivera

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Timestamps/Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction and Background

02:26 - Is Bitcoin Support Partisan?

06:35 - The EIA Request for Information on Bitcoin Mining

13:18 - Motivations and Political Divide

18:42 - "Emergency" Collection of Data

20:14 - Swan.com

21:26 - Mempool.space

22:35 - Coinkite.com

23:52 - Competitive Information and Disclosure

31:50 - Potential Misinterpretation and Attacks

39:04 - Pushing Back and Taking Action

41:24 - The Importance of Speaking Up

42:16 - Closing Thoughts