An open letter to @beincrypto While 97% of publications are improving their reporting of Bitcoin mining, there is one outlier who has gone in the other direction: yours. For context, you deserve praise for having in 2023 ran research-based articles on Bitcoin mining like this one that showed how Bitcoin mining had numerous environmental and energy benefits. When journalists who made the effort to research bitcoin mining such as @DaniREscudero left (I know because he reach out to me many times), it would appear he's been replaced by people who have not made this effort. As a result, you are now publishing 2021-style misinformation that even mainstream media has stopped publishing, including the false claim that Bitcoin uses energy per transaction. Let's be clear, this is objectively misinformation, first debunked by Cambridge University in 2018, then subsequently 4 times in peer reviewed publications. (Masanet et al, 2019, Dittmar et al. 2019, Sedlmeir et al, 2020, and Sai...
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