Bitcoin, every mention
4 scenes (2022) · ← back to Bitcoin
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every year 2022 anyone Shayle Kann 61Sarah Golden 8Drew Baglino 3Sean McAvoy 1Jigar Shah 1Ben Hertz-Shargel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bitcoin comes up
Why methane matters
- ▶ 28:57 Shayle Kann You use that methane to power a data center, most often a Bitcoin mine of late, or, you know, there's some new ideas around using that methane to, um, produce other chemicals that, that might store, uh, store the carbon within them, and…
Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode
- ▶ 40:51 Sarah Golden How do we stop Bitcoin from erasing all the progress we are making to address climate and the electricity sector? 7 times in the scene
Hydrogen, meet salt cavern
- ▶ 26:28 Jigar Shah Remember that we've got, you know, Bitcoin miners that have basically been thrown out of China and Russia who are now going across the United States trying to sop up all the excess, you know, electricity capacity and claiming that it's…
- ▶ 28:02 Shayle Kann Otherwise, your incentive, and this is my issue with the Bitcoin miners too, their incentive is basically to operate 24 seven, because it's super lucrative to do so, even at higher electricity prices.