⭕scar Cervantes

An open letter to @BillGates Dear Bill It is a free world, so I celebrate the fact you have the freedom to express your opinion "Bitcoin is useless". Equally, as a person of influence, you have the duty of care to make sure that your opinion is an informed one. Your comment "Bitcoin is useless" demonstrates that either a. You are uninformed, or b. You do not care for vast swathes of human life. Considering your well documented philanthropic efforts, I will assume it is the former, not the latter. So as someone who has spent a little more time than you researching the uses of Bitcoin, let me lay it out to you unambiguously. When you say "Bitcoin is useless", you are saying that: 1. Fast tracking the delivery of renewable energy to millions of Ethiopians is useless teapawt.net/DSBatten/status/188677… 2. Getting aid to 1000s of war refugees is useless cnbc.com/2022/03/23/ukrainia… 3 Developing energy independence for Bhutan is useless impact.economist.com/project… 4. Saving National Parks in Africa from closure is useless technologyreview.com/2023/01… 5. Helping Afghanastani women avoid State-level financial discrimination is useless bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/… 6. Establishing the economic sovereignty of 14 African nations still experiencing French financial colonization is useless foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/03… 7. The idea of creating an alternative to a monetary system which can and does elongate wars, increase wealth gaps, bail out bankers but fail to protect employees and small businesses is useless amazon.com/Engine-Inequality… 8. The potential to provide banking to up to 2 Billion unbanked is useless impact.economist.com/project… cnbc.com/2023/03/26/bitcoin-… 9. Providing a financial system that is harder to use for money laundering than fiat currency is useless decrypt.co/125623/crooks-def… 10. Removing the risk of financial reprisal for running humanitarian campaigns in autocratic nations where 5.7Billion people live is useless bbc.com/news/world-africa-56… 11. Providing up to 250 Million people in countries experiencing hyperinflation a means to stop 50%+ erosion of their family savings per year is useless cointribune.com/en/argentina… 12. Allowing people in developing nations to receive remittance payments from family without delays and without heavy fees is useless thenextweb.com/news/el-salva… 13. Having a secure, permissionless, decentralized, 24/7 store of value with fixed monetary supply is useless bitcoin.com/get-started/the-… 14. The accomplishment of becoming the world's most sustainably powered industry is useless teapawt.net/DSBatten/status/167032… 15. Accelerating the renewable transition by making renewable generation more profitable is useless news.cornell.edu/stories/202… 16. Reducing more emissions from landfills than the largest DAC project in the world ever achieved is useless renewableenergymagazine.com/… 17. Developing an monetary financial system with significantly lower emissions and emissions intensity than the banking system is useless nasdaq.com/articles/a-compar… teapawt.net/DSBatten/status/167133… 18. Helping bring energy abundance to these 1800 African villagers have no value unherd.com/2024/01/the-afric… As I'm sure you'll agree, these uses are not only far from useless, but coincide with the very environmental and humanitarian causes that you have set up a foundation to help! While have read many books, it is clear however from your comments that a book on Bitcoin has not yet been one of them. Can I suggest you take steps to remedy this if you're planning on saying more about Bitcoin? As it stands, you are in your ignorance belittling a technology that is helping vast numbers of people already - often on matters of life or death, human dignity and basic human freedoms - and many of whom are those in the African continent that have publicly stated that you care greatly about. Please do better in your research, and be more evidence-based in your comments next time Bill. Sincerely Daniel Batten Climatetech Investor and Bitcoin analyst

1/17 You've read many times Bitcoin is bad for the environment. But now you're confused. The media, sustainability magazines, even peer reviewed journals are saying it can support climate action. Next-level greenwash? There a reason the message has changed. Let's dive in 👇