The Bitcoin Adoption Letter

Brazil just made the case for Bitcoin mining that Bitcoiners never could

Five independent generators mining their own wasted power, their securities regulator learning about Bitcoin in parallel, and a pattern I’ve found…

Jul 14 • Daniel Batten

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The $110 Billion blindspot

Dear Subscriber, Three conversations are happening right now about the future of electricity grids. They’re happening in parallel swinlanes, without…

Jul 2 • Daniel Batten

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Central banks are studying Bitcoin. I have been teaching them.

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Jul 2 • Daniel Batten

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June 2026

The truth is not enough

Dear Subscriber, While I was at the (amazing) Free Energy Summit in Lisbon last month, I had the chance to finally ask Kenji Tateiwa some questions I’d…

Jun 4 • Daniel Batten

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May 2026

The Grid’s Best Friend Just Left the Building

Dear Subscriber, As the line in the song Big Yellow Taxi goes "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Texas is…

May 7 • Daniel Batten

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March 2026

#046 Irony, Inertia and Invisibility Cloaks

Dear Subscriber Yesterday, Square auto-enabled Bitcoin payments for its 4 million merchants via the Lightning Network. Zero processing fees through…

Mar 31 • Daniel Batten

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“What Would the World Look Like If You Gave Once, and Your Gift Lasted Forever?”

This question led Einstein to his famous theory of relativity. One hundred years later, another “What would the world look like if…” question could…

Mar 25 • Daniel Batten

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February 2026

Bitcoin's Crossing the Chasm Moment?

What a last few weeks! As we know, price trends follow adoption trends. For the last 6 months we’ve been warning in this letter about some bearish…

Feb 10 • Daniel Batten

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January 2026

#043: Monarchs ♥ Bitcoin

A belated happy new year! Have you ever thought about the paradoxical nature of truth? Of Bitcoin? Of decentralization itself? Bitcoin is a…

Jan 21 • Daniel Batten

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December 2025

Alpha is what happens backstage

Last week’s panel was good … but what we talked about backstage was 10-100x better! Based on these conversations, in this newsletter I’ll be sharing Why…

Dec 19, 2025 • Daniel Batten

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November 2025

When good signals go bad

For years, it was widely known that you went to Bitcoin Twitter for the top analysis, not to Forbes and mainstream media. But recently on Twitter we’ve…

Nov 18, 2025 • Daniel Batten

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No Country for Old Money

In Issue #019 we saw how 329,000 refugees had used Bitcoin to set up their lives in a new country. After that was released, I got a message from a…

Nov 7, 2025 • Daniel Batten and Elvis Gwaro

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