BREAKDOWN: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal of the Most Recent Bitcoin Environmental FUD
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A reading of Nic Carter’s latest painstaking response to the New York Times’ recent hit job.
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On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads Nic Carter’s “On Bitcoin, the Gray Lady Embraces Climate Lysenkoism,” a rebuttal of the New York Times’ recent piece on bitcoin energy consumption he says is riddled with false data and debunked sources.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.6 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
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| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, April 18th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. |
| 1:18.8 | Listen, I don't want to have to be reading this piece today in the same way that Nick Carter |
| 1:24.0 | didn't want to have to be writing it earlier this week. But mainstream media insists |
| 1:29.1 | on continuing to peddle nonsense around the environmental impact of Bitcoin and other parts of the |
| 1:35.2 | crypto industry, so here we are. Today, on Long Read Sunday, I'll be reading Nick Carter's piece |
| 1:41.0 | on Bitcoin, The Grey Lady embraces climate lisenkoism. How the New York Times |
| 1:46.1 | wields junk science in their attacks on Bitcoin. I want to thank the formerly eminent New York |
| 1:52.0 | Times. I read their latest article on Bitcoin at 5.30 a.m. this morning, and I was immediately |
| 1:56.5 | jolted into a state of alertness. No coffee needed. Their latest missive on Bitcoin's climate footprint |
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