Daniel Batten

Carl Jung once said “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you" That's something I've been working to resolve for a while now *Link in comments, if you're keen to know more

The full breakdown is in this week's letter: who they are, how many, what I've seen teaching Brazil's own regulators, and why this many moving at once is a signal worth listening to. batcoinz.com/p/brazil-just-…

One Brazilian solar plant wastes enough power to mine ~$20-25M Bitcoin p.a. The whole country's Bitcoin mining is $3M. Other power producers are now closing the gap, a pattern I've not seen outside US. In Brazil, and other places, Bitcoin is being adopted as an energy solution

"There are 2 things that are good to invest in. One is Bitcoin. The other is yourself."

People don't get Bitcoin for the same reason I didn't get it (and it is nothing to do with lack of IQ).

@_michae1_85 That causes even bigger potential problems (in the opposite direction)! They legally have to stay grid connected.

@DSBatten Isnt it possible to temporarily turn off the wind turbines if they are causing damage ?

What's happening on the Swedish grid right now is not only hard to believe, but a window into the future regarding the Bitcoin usecase the world embraces first. Here's a snapshot.

@digispud Thanks. You picked up a bug. Fixing it now. Very much appreciated

@DSBatten Nice, simple design. The "Programs" tab at the top just shows the same content as the "Proof of Work" tab. On Firefox / Linux anyway.

A short story about trusting yourself Until 2020 I had a simple, effective website. A homepage, a sparse amount of menu, a video on the homepage and a "let's go" button if people wanted to take the conversation further. The simple, clear, direct message and path typically led to one new coaching client per quarter who found me on the website. Then I met a marketing expert. He told me I was doing it all wrong. "People need to get to know you before they'll connect with you", "There's not enough context, or story about who you are", "And the design is sparse and not warm". I trusted his viewpoint. After all he was a marketing expert. What would I know? We rebuilt the website in what was a long, involved process. The result looked visually appealing and told a far more complete story about who I was. But ... after a year, there had been no new enquiries. after three years, still no new enquiries, let alone clients Six years later, one enquiry off the website and still zero new clients. Here's what he realized: Yes, there are some people who need to "get to know you" before they contact you. But people who take a long time to make decisions have never been my clients. My best clients by results have always been those who have the capacity to implement a new idea fast. I'd just invested money in creating a website that matched my marketing expert's belief about how people buy, not how I already knew my best clients engaged with me. But the mistake was on me. I didn't trust my gut, my own process, and allowed the words of an "expert" to override not just my intuition but my own direct experience. Worse, because I'd "invested so much in building it" I was reluctant to go back and fix it, because that would amount to admitting to an expensive mistake, the real expense being not the initial cost, but the compounding loss of business over a growing period of time as I continued to stay in a losing trade. This year I got real with myself and admitted the mistake, and within a month built a new website. The site follows all the exact same principles that I used until 2020. But it's better because, well, Bitcoin ... and I've become a better coach since then too. Here's the finished result if you're curious danielbatten.co But the point of the story is this: No matter how much expertise someone has, you are the expert on you. Don't trade that inner knowing for someone else's domain knowledge lightly. You know context they don't, and ignoring that can be expensive.

@basedlayer I don't hate anyone. When you hate someone, its a big tax on your own nervous system, and your peace-of-mind. Plus you become more like what you spend time thinking about.

What type of human do you hate the most: A) those who don’t know that they don’t know B) those who know that they don’t know C) those who think that they know D) those who know but think they don’t

Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=_K2wOk…

An inspiring story about how one antifragile Bitcoiner single-handedly changed the direction of the world's 5th larges utility Full interview in comments.

Thank you Lloyds for the free Bitcoin marketing

The best thing about (finally) updating my website was reconnecting with clients I hadn't coached for 5 years and asking them if they'd seen ongoing benefit after the coaching ended and if so what Humbled by some of what came back, like this one. The exit is nice, but its not the thing that moved me the most. Whatever you do in life, I encourage you to choose a path that minimizes regret and maximizes for legacy you'd be proud of years later.

As some people are moving out of Bitcoin Mining positions, others are looking to recruit in those areas If you have existing Bitcoin mining expertise and are looking for a client advisor (sales role), I know of an opening Similarly I know of someone who has site opportunities in Europe who is looking for someone with strong energy expertise and bitcoin mining knowledge as more of a co-founding relationship If either sounds like something you're interested in let me know. I've got no intention of becoming a recruiter for the Bitcoin mining industry, but I do like to put good honeybadgers in touch with each other !

@Christophe77688 Glad it resonated. In twenty years of coaching, I've yet to hear a story of where someone didn't listen to their intuition and it ended up well. This was an important reminder to consistently do the same myself.

@DSBatten Thank you for sharing the lesson learned. tThe words I needed to stay course.

Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=_K2wOk…

Another 19 new business owners recently adopted Bitcoin Their assessment a month+ later - "This feels cleaner" - "This feels like a better form of money" - "Now 1 in 8 transactions is in Bitcoin" - "20% of my business income is in Bitcoin now." One couple created this in their spare time when they weren't running 3 businesses and 6 children!

“If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, help someone else.” Chinese proverb

Big shout-out to @BitcoinEkasi and @fedimint You've probably heard the story. You may not have gotten what it means. At the same time that Bitcoin was printing its worst month in four years, a township in Mossel Bay, South Africa was quietly building its own bank using Bitcoin. Bitcoin Ekasi has run a circular economy since 2021: 50 kids in its surf program, their coaches paid 100% in Bitcoin, spending it at local spaza shops. The piece that stayed unsolved was custody. Some members will never manage their own keys, and a custodial app means trusting a company that can freeze or lose their money. So they built community custody with Fedimint. 7 local guardians hold a 5-of-7 multisig and issue eCash that is instant, free, private, and simple enough for non-technical people to use. The people least served by banks now hold sound money with no bank, no exchange, and no key to lose. Why Bitcoin and nothing else? No bank will build rails for a poor township, and the rand keeps eroding what little people can save. Only open, permissionless, fixed-supply money let this community own its financial rails and run them itself. Just imagine what would happen if other towns around the world folllowed Mossel Bay's recipe. Adoption does not stop when the price falls. In fact, that's when the builders become easiest to see.