4 years ago today to the day, I wrote a tweet that changed everything for me.
Greenpeace had just launched their "Change the Code". I'll be honest, I was furious.
For a simple reason. I just happened to have been independently researching Bitcoin's environmental impact for 2 months, so I knew exactly where they were factually incorrect, and why.
My first instinct was to fire back immediately. I had the data. I had the arguments. I was ready.
Instead I sat down and breathed (I use a practice called SKY breathing).
20 minutes later I went back to the computer and wrote a very different response than the one I would have written in the heat of it. Calm. Precise. Led with evidence. Backed up by sources. Not dismissible as the maxi vitriol. This was to set the tone for all subsequent engagements.
The anger had transmuted into passion. But it was counterbalanced by dispassion, and that made all the difference.
I never expected a single retweet. Virtually none of my tweets over the last 5 years had gotten any!
But that one tweet got over 600k views and changed everything for me. More importantly, it set the direction for 4 years of research that helped shift the entire narrative on Bitcoin and energy.
I've thought about this a lot since. The data mattered. The timing mattered. But what mattered most was the 20 minutes I almost didn't take.
It’s the response that flies through space carries the energy it was launched with.
https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1509120833360662528
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