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Hass McCook

Retired Chartered Professional Civil Engineer, researching and writing on Bitcoin's environmental, economic, and spiritual impact since 2014.

Articles From This Author

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Culture

Bitcoin Mining In The 22nd Century

By Hass McCook
Feature
Reviewing the difficulty changes in Bitcoin’s history demonstrates that the practice of mining is near-perfectly competitive and is becoming increasingly so top photo.
Business

Bitcoin’s ‘Difficult’ Past: Exponential Network Growth Powered By Perfect Competition

By Hass McCook
Feature
Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin and its Genesis Block, is often depicting with a Guy Fawkes mask top photo.
Culture

Why You Can't Have A PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin

By Hass McCook
Bitcoin will ultimately “fix the money” and enable world peace, but we can bring this future about more quickly through contributions to the Bitcoin charity top photo.
Culture

World Peace And The Bitcoin Charity

By Hass McCook
Bitcoin’s Energy Use Compared To Other Major Industries top photo.
Business

Bitcoin’s Energy Use Compared To Other Major Industries

By Hass McCook
Bitcoin pleb Army, Sparta, ancient Greece, history, war, battle, cyber hornet top photo.
Markets

How The DCA Army Will Drive A $1 Million Bitcoin Price

By Hass McCook
Based on public data, by 2026, emissions from Bitcoin will be less than a third of what they are today and by 2031, there will be none top photo.
Business

Projecting Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use

By Hass McCook
In a recent tweet explaining why Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin, Elon Musk displayed a poor understanding of Bitcoin’s energy use.
Business

Breaking Down Elon Musk’s Misunderstandings About Bitcoin

By Hass McCook
Published research shows Bitcoin mining produces a mere fraction of the carbon emissions coming from the world’s military-industrial complex top photo.
Culture

Bitcoin Emits Less Than 2% Of The World’s Military-Industrial Complex Carbon Emissions

By Hass McCook
A comprehensive calculation of the carbon emissions from the legacy financial sector shows that Bitcoin is far less impactful on the planet.
Business

Bitcoin Emits Less Than 5% Of The Legacy Financial Sector’s Carbon Emissions

By Hass McCook
A Russian aluminum plant, whose owner has been hit by U.S. sanctions, will lease space to a cryptocurrency mining company.
Culture

A Comparison Of Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact With That Of Gold And Banking

By Hass McCook