#255: Green energy tradeoffs, real environmentalism, Bitcoin as a commodity, & Saudi Inc. with Dr. Ellen Wald

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., to discuss:

- The unspoken tradeoffs of green energy

- The Colonial Pipeline situation

- Ransomeware

- The ESG movement

- Is bitcoin a commodity?

- Saudi Inc.

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Suffrakes, it's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:04.9	Yet another crossover podcast with the Gamcast show.
0:08.6	Wasn't going to do it for this one, but considering current events, the mining council
0:15.4	and the push towards being more ESG friendly in the mining space.
0:23.5	I thought this episode is very important to crosspost considering the conversation,
0:30.7	which is laden with ESG talk and the tradeoffs that come with ESG,
0:36.5	or the hidden tradeoffs that aren't discussed during
0:39.6	the ESG and carbon credit accounting scam.
0:44.4	People like Elon Musk are literally raping the world and they're trying to tell Bitcoin miners
0:52.3	they need to do better.
0:55.5	Listen in freaks.
0:56.8	Weird times.
0:58.5	I don't want to have to go
0:59.7	and slay sailor.
1:02.7	Tell Elon Musk.
1:03.9	He's a hysterical hypocrite.
1:05.3	But...
1:06.5	Sometimes you gotta do what you got to do.
1:09.5	This episode is brought to you by your good friends
1:10.8	at the motherfucking cash-up.
1:15.3	Cash-up.
1:15.8	Sell, sats, send, sets, receive sets, sell sats.
	...

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