We're in North Dakota predominantly right now in North Dakota,

as some of the strictest flaring regulations in the country.

So if a producer in the Bakken and North Dakota flares a certain amount,

they have to shut down oil production.

So we're just going to show up to you.

And we'll, instead of building a pipeline that's hundreds of miles long,

we'll build one that's a few dozen feet long and run it to

generators and we'll consume that gas and turn it into Bitcoin with our mine here.

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the

big picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by

crypto.com, Bitstamp, and nexo.io, and produced and distributed by CoinDess. What's going on,

guys? It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and today I'm excited to share a conversation that I've

been waiting to share for months. That conversation is with Marty Bent,

and it's about why Bitcoin and Big Energy are actually potentially unlikely allies. First,

however, let's do the brief. First up on the brief today, more on the digital euro. So I mentioned

yesterday that a wire had come through

showing that Europe might be about to get on the digital currency train. We got more details

than I wanted to share them. Christine Lagarde, who is the head of the European Central Bank,

gave an introductory speech at the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly yesterday.

And it's important to put this speech in the context of what has transpired this year.

When the coronavirus first started to take hold, one of the impacts was a real questioning of

the ability of European government to actually handle it.

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