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Hass Mccook

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

Bitcoin Mining In The 22nd Century

CULTURE Hass Mccook -
Greetings from the deep future! It is block height 4,830,001, and we have just had an interplanetary 23rd halving party.

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

BUSINESS Hass Mccook -
Reviewing the difficulty changes in Bitcoin’s history demonstrates that the practice of mining is near-perfectly competitive and is becoming increasingly so.

Why You Can’t Have A PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin

CULTURE Hass Mccook -
Bitcoin is clearly a social phenomenon worthy of study for a proper philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) degree.

World Peace And The Bitcoin Charity

CULTURE 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.

Bitcoin’s Energy Use Compared To Other Major Industries

BUSINESS Hass Mccook -
The data shows Bitcoin’s energy use would represent just a rounding error in the construction, transportation or healthcare industries.

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

MARKETS Hass Mccook -
The entire supply of bitcoin will eventually go to the zealot DCA army, bringing enough fiat into BTC that fiat ceases to exist.

Projecting Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use

BUSINESS 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.

Breaking Down Elon Musk’s Misunderstandings About Bitcoin

BUSINESS 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.

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

CULTURE Hass Mccook -
Published research shows Bitcoin mining produces a mere fraction of the carbon emissions coming from the world’s military-industrial complex.

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

BUSINESS Hass Mccook -
A comprehensive calculation of the carbon emissions from the legacy financial sector shows that Bitcoin is far less impactful on the planet.
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