BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Investing Is ESG Investing
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As more investors focus on the environmental, social and governance impacts of their decisions, an argument for why bitcoin is ESG-friendly.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
In today's episode, NLW looks at how bitcoin fits with the growing trend of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) investing. In it, he:
- Argues that ESG investors should disregard the false idea that bitcoin is only used for crime
- Provides three frameworks for understanding bitcoin’s energy consumption
- Demonstrates how marginalized communities are using bitcoin as a tool of economic empowerment
- Argues that bitcoin provides a new, networked alternative to corporate governance
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| 0:00.0 | Bitcoin offers a fundamentally different conception of governance. |
| 0:04.0 | It is messy, socially driven and argumentative. |
| 0:07.0 | It is also fundamentally democratic. |
| 0:10.0 | It is already shown that when threatened by corporate capture, it can fight back and win. |
| 0:15.0 | That potential alone, that Bitcoin can show a post-corporate power alternative, driven by beautiful, messy |
| 0:23.2 | networks of real people and real stakeholders, should get investors interested in the G of ESG |
| 0:28.9 | to at least be paying attention. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:36.6 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:43.4 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:50.1 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, February 25th, and today we are talking about why Bitcoin |
| 0:56.7 | investing is ESG investing. Before I start, I want to give the two sources of inspiration for this |
| 1:04.6 | particular podcast. The first is kind of general. When we start new bull market cycles, there is inevitably a new wave |
| 1:12.1 | of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that happens. The cynical side of this is that people who have |
| 1:17.1 | been against Bitcoin and crypto for perpetuity are re-upping and doubling down on their |
| 1:21.5 | intranced positions because otherwise they look stupid for having missed it. This is absolutely |
| 1:25.5 | a thing I've mentioned it a number of times, but the |
| 1:28.3 | non-cynical take, which is much more important, I think, is that there are, by definition, |
| 1:33.4 | a lot of new people discovering Bitcoin as the price rises. It's not at all dismissive of all |
| 1:39.1 | of Bitcoin's non-financial properties to recognize that number go up is just about the best marketing to get new people |
| 1:45.8 | to pay attention. Certainly, I believe Satoshi recognize this. So if we take it from that angle, |
| 1:52.0 | we have to assume that every new cycle brings new people, many of whom will naturally have |
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