Todays guest is Hass McCook, he is a civil engineer working on economic infrastructure like building roads and tunnels and has a lot of experience in mining. He did his MBA in Oxford and conducted his first research about the Sustainability of Bitcoin in 2014, he updated and expanded this work in 2018 with the paper “The Cost and Sustainability of Bitcoin” and was presenting his insights into the “Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin” at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga in 2019.

Bitcoin is hard money
Consumerism
Energy consumption of Bitcoin
Environmental impact of mining Gold, of FIAT printed money, coins and of banks
Energy consumption vs. CO2 emissions
Efficiency improvements
Digiconomist uses same methodology in research, but conclusions are intellectual inhonest
Cost to mine a bitcoin is about 6.500 USD today
More hashpower will be put into the system as long as there is some money to make
Price drop at the beginning of 2019 was also because of a miners war
Market driven per Antminer S9
Australia has powerful coal lobbies, small solar-energy industry
Australian Bitcoin scene
Gold is useful in tech, a good way to store money, but unethical
Gold is useless, unethical
Learning about Bitcoin
Volatility
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