Nodes—are you ready for their truth? In Bitcoin’s circular energy money economy, holders pay to store data on the blockchain, miners cash in to add blocks, but nodes? They’re the unsung volunteers holding it all together, storing every transaction’s truth. From Bitcoin Core to Knots, miners to Mara, I dive into the heart of the network. Too much cost on nodes could break this balance—think mempool bloat, OP Return, Runes, Ordinals, even ETFs and NFTs clogging blockspace. Developers shape the rules, but nodes enforce them. Watch now—uncover why nodes are Bitcoin’s backbone and how to keep them thriving!
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Hello there and welcome to the HashPower Academy. My name is Jacob Scandalan. I’m the lead educator here at the academy and this is your place to learn anything and everything to do with Bitcoin from the fundamentals. Now the topic of today’s video is looking at the current debate uh with the Bitcoin community, Bitcoin core and their decision to want to increase the OP return limit which allows essentially more arbitrary information to be able to store in the Bitcoin blockchain. And the key question for you is what price would you pay? What price should you pay to store information online forever? And the the back end of that very interesting question is that the Bitcoin nodes are the volunteers of the Bitcoin network. They are storing all of this transaction information. Tik Tok next block. That is a group of people all around the world, thousands of them that all individually have a storage device for storing all of our transactional truth because you can only add Bitcoin blocks to the chain with an expended amount of energy from the mining sector producing compute producing Bitcoin. and those holding Bitcoin, those are the ones paying to store their transaction information in the Bitcoin blockchain. So the nodes are a series of interconnected people having updates from the miners of a new block for new transactions to be stored and they are being informed as to that minor saying, “Well, I want to store this group of transactions in the blockchain.” And you got everyone holding Bitcoin and those running nodes broadcasting that they want to store their transaction information in the block. And so the nodes are these volunteers in the middle whilst the Bitcoin holders are paying fees to the miners and the miners are continually adding more blocks to the chain to collect those fees. So miners are incentivized to produce as much block space as possible because they get paid for doing so and they get subsidy as well. And subsidy right now is the majority of a miner’s revenue. It’s 98 99% of the total block reward of both subsidy and fees. But we inevitably into the future go to a point of time where there is no more subsidy. the 21 million units of digital real estate of Manhattan, the first purchases of this prime digital real estate that is a bidding auction of electricity and compute that is continued now for over a decade at least and is going to go forward multiple more decades 100 plus years of the bidding auction of electricity and compute into Bitcoin. But with price sitting on top as well, uh price has been the one thing that a lot of people have focused on the most. But let’s go back in time. Let’s go back to the dawn of Satoshi Nakamoto consuming a small amount of energy in his CPU to produce a small amount of hash rate which he produced his own Bitcoin blocks and stored his own Bitcoin with his own private key. And so you have this complete vertical integration of all the responsibilities and node running at the start of Bitcoin was that functionality that every computer was producing hash rate, producing blocks and preserving their own private keys. And so at the dawn of time, mining wasn’t an industry. and holding your private keys and being a Bitcoin holder wasn’t an industry in the sense of it’s fragmenting now into wallets and platforms and exchanges and layer twos and ETFs that on the financial side above the Bitcoin blockchain the responsibilities of holding your own private keys has obiscated. If you’re if you’re holding your Bitcoin with an ETF, you’re essentially, you know, letting someone else be responsible for your for your digital money. That is a double-edged sword. And then on the mining side of things, as mining got harder and harder because as more people uh joined the party to get their slice of the cake, more people, smaller slice. And so the the timeline of mining has required more energyintensive, more efficient computers and it’s broadened out into its own industry. It’s a m mining is a multi-billion dollar industry and it’s delving deeper and deeper into the energy sector. And so you’ve got everything underneath Bitcoin producing blocks expanding out into the energy sector. And you got everything in the financial side expanding out into the financial sector. But what has not changed in the middle? It’s those that run a node. That you’ve got the miners incentivized to add more information to nodes broadcasting blocks of, hey, take this file, add it to your file storage, and let’s all preserve the transactional truth of the Bitcoin chain. And you’ve got holders performing all different types of economic activity all across the planet wanting to pay to store their information in the blocks. But the nodes in the middle are the volunteers. And so going from the past of all responsibilities to produce blocks, store blocks, and own the information, the Bitcoin data money in the blocks started as one in the same job role. But coming to the present, we’ve got now a system which is adding 50 to 100 gigabytes of data uh every year and that will increase. Why? Because if we increase the amount of arbitrary non-information that’s not monetary in form, different file types so to speak into Bitcoin blocks, yes, it does stimulate an increase in the fee rates. Miners, well, well, like Marathon, they are allowing these large files to be stored in Bitcoin blocks because they’re paid for doing so. So to miners, they care about the uh the fee rates because inevitably subsidy disappears and you’re only just getting paid fees. That is the inevitable finality of mining from the mining perspective. that miners are when subsidy is gone, miners will be able to arbitrage, energy, compute aspects of heating systems and selling electricity, but it’s all priced and benchmark against the amount of Bitcoin they can capture per block mined. And so their avenue to capturing this Bitcoin is to store as much information in the block. So this just helps you understand where the miners sit in this debate. And then people holding Bitcoin, they want the fee rate to be as low as possible. So So the access to block space is cheap. So you got miners who want the fee rate to be high as high as possible and Bitcoin holders that want the fee rate to be as low as possible. And interestingly enough, from the things that we teach here at the Hashpower Academy is block rewards get priced against a miner’s compute and energy. If block rewards go up, the value of hardware goes up. But also, the price in which miners are willing to sell their electricity goes up. Alternatively, if you’re holding Bitcoin and the fee rate is really low, the amount of electricity you can buy with your Bitcoin increases. So, paradoxically, the lower the fee rate that the amount of uh sats per virtual bite that you need to to store your transaction information in blocks, uh well, if the fee rate is really low, your Bitcoin allows you to buy more electricity and thus increasing its purchasing of power by literally uh being able to buy power from miners in in a future state. And then the miners, they want to be paid as much. And so holders want naturally low fee rates, but right now blocks are empty. And on the mining side, yeah, blocks being empty is an economic problem to the security budget. The the difficulty adjustment increasing is that as price and the value of Bitcoin increases, its security is increasing in tandem, which is important. And I think the key danger point is if we ever see one four-year cycle where difficulty does not increase, that would be the key danger I I believe for Bitcoin. And then what doesn’t change, we’ve talked about the past where it all used to be one in the same role. You ran a laptop, produced your own block, stor stored the information, and owned your own Bitcoin with your own private keys. And now it’s expanded out into wallets, apps, IUS, and not even running a full node anymore. People have pruned nodes and partial nodes and mining where the majority of miners don’t even run a node. They are just hash rate sellers. They’re not producing their own blocks. They are selling their hash rate, the the compute commodity, so to speak. They’re selling their hash rate to a mining pool and being paid Bitcoin whilst the whilst the mining pool is the the the the business entity of running a node so to speak. And mining as a mining and holding Bitcoin are the economical circulating economy around the nodes, but the nodes still in the middle are volunteers. So this is a very tricky and in intricate conversation when looking into the future. From my perspective, we’re coming from a debt-based money system going onto an energy based money system. We’re in the the ter the tumultuous change in that process right now in the point of time. And I believe if blocks are empty, that’s a problem. So, I don’t think this is I’m going to put out a an idea and I don’t think it’s the right or wrong approach, but I’m obviously looking for people’s thoughts and feedback that have a more technical leaning understanding of of Bitcoin from its from its uh developer sense, which is if blocks are empty, maybe the OP return limit should be slightly higher, but use the difficulty adjustment as as an aggregate for lowering and increasing um the the OP return so that in the peak of the bull market when there’s a lot of transactions flowing around um get rid of the arbitrary information essentially. But in the bottom of the bare market where the p you know the block space is empty and we’re just depending on subsidy which you know that’s not where we want to be. Then maybe open it so that blocks are being filled. But that that does endanger Bitcoin to becoming a cloud storage system. And I do believe that miners will have a lot more economic opportunity in not just hoping and crossing their fingers that the benchmark of their income is based on block rewards, but I believe that block rewards for miners are the least interesting final outcome for their use of compute. that there is, you know, the compute in of itself is the the representation that energy is available in the Bitcoin network and that energy can be sold and it’s being priced against um the fee rate of block rewards. the the global electricity grid of the blockchain comparing to their local uh energy availability that they’ve got a power contract with a quantity of kil and uh as their input and they got an output of bitcoin being mined and they can directly price those two and as they find buyers of energy the more they switch their machines off the more money that miners can earn. So I do see that miners should be building out in the physical root system instead of in the digital ethereical hope that other people’s other people uh take the cost of storing transaction information um aka the volunteers having to well we’re imposing more cost on the volunteers by having them store pictures and videos and music in the Bitcoin blockchain because the nodes if there is more cost to running a node less people will do it. That it’s great that there is mining on the physical side of Bitcoin’s decentralization fragmented across every country, every electrical grid, off-grid um with using network communications such as satellites um and ground stations and and the the internet in of itself is very decentralized. Um, but that digital side of decentralization, the transactional truth of that file, we want that in the hands of as many people running as many nodes, because if you think of the the millions that hold Bitcoin, and then the tiny percentage that run a node, that that truly began with the fragmentation of updating the blockchain, storing the blockchain, and owning the information on the blockchain. as those three fragmented out into finance and energy and running a node in the middle sort of became an enterprise business for mining pools which are still a for-profit business. That fragmentation I believe is where the problems began with people truly trying to wrap their head around the importance of running a node. So the key takeaway is run a node and if you believe that the op return limit should be higher, run Bitcoin core. If you believe it should be lower and you should just store monetary transaction information of economic activity on the network um in in a in a strictly monetary focus the the fragmentation of the central banking system debt based money um and transitioning onto an energy based money. Well, that’s that’s the path that I believe is is the most important from my side of things. I think the second most important transaction type that’s nonmonetary should be electricity because you’ve got you’ve got mining infrastructure deployed across the planet which is continually observing what’s happening on the blockchain already for the majority and it’s the other side of that trade is is is power markets. I do believe that that there should be some form of layer two that has net settlement to the Bitcoin blockchain to aggregate the amount of electricity being consumed and even pricing and trading of energy because as I’ve said there’s already a pricing system that miners right now especially in Texas if you if you Google demand response Bitcoin mining it will come up that miners are literally observing what’s more valuable with my power contract sell the power for X amount per kilowatt or mine into Bitcoin x amount per kilowatt. Which one pays me more? Machine off, sell the power. Machine on, consuming to produce Bitcoin. And that that means that Bitcoin’s most intrinsic market activity is not just block space, but also with energy markets. So, I believe if there was anything non-monetary that should be stored in the Bitcoin blockchain, it should be net settlement of energy trading. But that’s just me. Thoughts, comments, questions, queries? Um, I’m going to start adding links and donation things in the in the description because YouTube have demonetized me. Thank you very much. It’s just uh put an even bigger fire under my backside and um I’ve got to find other ways to keep this channel going because the time and energy to make this content is very important but also important for education. Thank you for listening. Hope you enjoy and I will see you in the next one. Goodbye.
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Youtube VideosWant to mine Bitcoin? Let’s make hardware easy! In this Bitcoin 101, I explain the price ($/TH) and value (J/TH) of mining rigs like BitAxe Mini Miners, Hashrate Heaters, and ASICs. Lower J/TH means a more efficient rig—but it’ll cost you more upfront. Buying in bulk? That slashes your price per TH. Whether you’re into home mining, solar setups, or hosting, I’ll help you pick the right gear for your goals. Watch now—start mining smarter!
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Bitcoin Network Update 🟧 896872 🟧 Cheap Fees! & Sustainability | Hashpower Academy
Youtube VideosBig Bitcoin network update! Fees are super cheap—time to make those transactions! We’re at block height 896872 in the 5th halving epoch. Network hashrate keeps climbing, and efficiency’s getting better too. The Cambridge University Centre for Alternative Finance dropped a bombshell: Bitcoin mining’s now over 52.4% sustainable! Saylor keeps stacking sats, and Vegas Bitcoin buzz is just around the corner.
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Bitcoin 101: Hashprice Explained | Hashpower Academy
Youtube VideosCrack the code to Bitcoin mining with Hashprice! In this Bitcoin 101, I break down Luxor’s genius metric: (subsidy + fees) × price ÷ network hashrate. Hashprice tells you exactly how much BTC you earn per TH/day—your mining money meter! I dive into its power for hashrate contracts and future Bitcoin bonds, plus blockchain arbitrage—miners flipping their ASIC hashrate to SHA256 chains with the fattest returns. From difficulty to dollars, learn how Hashprice shapes your profits. Watch now—level up your mining knowledge !
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Hello there and welcome to the HashPower Academy, your place to learn anything and everything to do with Bitcoin from the fundamentals underneath the price. But interestingly, today we’re going to be talking about a mining metric called the hash price. It was a metric developed by a mining company called Luxor, which are very much integrated across all the different areas of Bitcoin. But today, yeah, we’re going to talk about their metric that they developed, which is now an industry standard for understanding the amount of Bitcoin you can earn per terahash per day. That’s what hash price boils this figure down to. And it’s in a dollarized amount. And hash price is the quantity of subsidy and fees multiplied by the price. So, the dollarized value of the amount of Bitcoin the entire network is earning based on difficulty underneath. So essentially how much Bitcoin you can earn per terahash of compute that you’re producing per day. And so we’ll look at the time aspect, the quantity aspect and maybe that comparison that what hash price is directly comparing is the amount of Bitcoin you can earn per terash per day dollarized amount in Bitcoin. But also what the comparison is is that same hash price is arbited potentially off across into other blockchains such as Bitcoin Cash because interestingly enough the hash price stays pretty much the same across all SH 256 blockchains because if one offers a higher reward hash rate switches to the other chain and brings it back down. So there’s an arbitrage aspect. We can also discuss that Bitcoin hash rate contracts are established from this pricing metric and also uh that uh interesting bitcoin per kilowatt that I like to discuss a lot. It truly connects the compute and economic side to the underlying energy side that miners use and potentially is a better metric but that’ll be for the end of the video. So the first thing to understand is that Bitcoin blocks are typically 144 per day. That’s one every 10 minutes roughly. But here’s the thing. Because miners are always joining the network, the the network hash rate is growing. The difficulty is increasing. And the difficulty increases if the software of all the different nodes has understood that blocks have come in quicker than 10 minutes. If they’ve come in 9 minutes, they’ll jump they’ll jump difficulty uh 10 11% depending. And so the first thing to understand is we’re looking at a day, but a day could be 147 blocks. It could be 140. It could be 144. It’s not an exact amount, but we’re measuring in a relative 24-hour period how many blocks are mined. And that determines the quantity and subsidy, the 450 Bitcoin roughly per day plus fees. Multiply that 450 Bitcoin by the Bitcoin price, and that’s the dollarized amount of Bitcoin being earned by the entire network. And then that difficulty adjustment is an understanding of how much hash rate the network hash rate which is earning all of that bitcoin. So hash price essentially divides that down to a terraash or you may see this figure right now at $55 per pahash which is 1,000 terraash. And so the first thing to understand is if the difficulty increases diff if it increases hash price decreases because if more more miners show up to the party each person gets a smaller slice. If more hash rate joins the network the bitcoin per terahash per day dilutes down a smaller quantity of bitcoin mined per terahash per day. And we have continually seen this over the course of Bitcoin’s entire history. And we will continue to see it to trend inevitably to zero, but never reached there. The gap between zero and the quantity of Bitcoin earned per terash per day is when we completely replace subsidy as the revenue for miners with fees. So we’ll never reach zero because zero to the quantity mined per terahash per day will be the active amount of fees being paid to the miners going into the future hundreds of years. And on this side of things, the the unit of account of hash price is that the the the key metric in the middle is that quantity of hash rate and how much Bitcoin you’re earning and how much energy cost associated to that because that’s the key metric for the miners is they’re looking at hash price to understand, okay, I’m going to spend this much on electricity today and I’m going to earn using this metric this amount of Bitcoin per terahash per day. and that comparison obviously they want to spend less on energy than what they receive in Bitcoin in return. And so one of the things that miners are going to do is when they think that the hash price is really high is they could potentially lock it into a contract which is essentially to say that right now if if the hash price was to jump really high and a minor thinks it will come down, he could potentially sell his future ability to produce Bitcoin to a buyer. So he’s selling a hash rate contract and being paid for that quantity of Bitcoin per terahash per day at say let’s say 10 cent per terahash per day or $100 per pahash per day and he’s locked in that rate because he thinks it’s going to drop and the buyer he’s taken the risk of the upside and so the first thing I’d like to say is if anyone’s looked at hash rate contracts or nice hashes easy mining or any of those sorts of things what you are buying into is not the ownership of a machine and the mining versus buying accumulation curve versus just buying Bitcoin. You’re buying into the hope that price increases, subsidy stays the same, fees increase, or the difficulty drops. That’s how you get paid as a hash rate contract buyer. You’re not buying into the economics of mining. You’re essentially trading you. And so the first thing to say about hash rate contracts is they are going to have particular use cases. But the key thing is that hash price will be the pricing system because it’s the miner observing the value of his compute per terahash per day. Um and then the other side of this is what that comparison is. The hash price of Bitcoin right now is 5.5 cent per terahash per day is well Bitcoin cash also has a quantity of hash rate right right now it’s about 3x a hash right and bitcoin right now I think is like 900 x aash now what happens is the hash price is relevant across all sh 256 blockchains because what happens is if the hash price of bitcoin cash let’s just say they had a load of fees or the price shot up and now the hash price for Bitcoin Cash is I don’t know 6 cent per per per terahash per day. Well, you’ll see some of this hash rate switch across to Bitcoin Cash and capture all of those fees and economically autocon convert their Bitcoin cash into Bitcoin. And when they see that realignment of the hash price across different blockchains going back to normal, they’ll go back to to mining Bitcoin. And so there is a real computational battle of um 0ero to one that there truly only will be one large SH 256 blockchain because it can computationally capture the fees of another blockchain and then auto switch it back. So the yes, Bitcoin cash very short term increases its security, but the miner of Bitcoin is capturing those fees in one blockchain and economically shifting the value to another. So depreciating it and so Bitcoin essentially kills all competitors in the computational sense and um my most favorite metric which hash price doesn’t consider in the economics of mining but uh you need the hash price as part of the calculation which is I like to use um bitcoin per kilowatt hour. So not the understanding of what one terraash earns you in quantity of bitcoin but how much one kilowatt hour earns you in quantity of bitcoin which requires you to look at the efficiency of the machine. So you do 1 kilowatt divided by the efficiency of your machine say 20 jewels per terahash and then you would multiply it by the hash price which is 24 hours. So you divide it down to an hour. So you get your bitcoin earned per kilowatt per day. So it shifts the unit of account down to the electricity level because then the miner has the direct understanding of the quantity of Bitcoin he earns per kilowatt incorporating his local efficiency and the global revenue rate of hash price. So hash price is great, but I feel like Bitcoin per kilowatt hour is a lot clearer for a lot of Bitcoin miners and also newcomers looking to understand the entire stack of energy compute and economics of Bitcoin compute and and electricity. So yeah, I’m just going to write Bitcoin per kilowatt hour because it’s my object bias in this debate. BTC and yeah truly if you if we consolidate things down per kilowatt hour it it just provides that clear understanding of inputs versus outputs because the miners are always understanding the economics of how much they can earn per terahash but then they have to they always have to convert that back down to the kilowatt hour level already just to understand the inputs of their energy cost and the outputs that they’re earning and then understanding say which chain is more profitable obviously You can see where all the miners are voting to see where the profitability is. And yeah, we will continually see all the different moving parts of these different areas of Bitcoin, but hash price does consolidate a lot of the digital side into a single metric. And uh yeah, so thank you for listening. Hope you enjoy and I will see you in the next one. Goodbye.
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Nodes: Can you handle the Truth? | Bitcoin Education | Hashpower Academy
Youtube VideosNodes—are you ready for their truth? In Bitcoin’s circular energy money economy, holders pay to store data on the blockchain, miners cash in to add blocks, but nodes? They’re the unsung volunteers holding it all together, storing every transaction’s truth. From Bitcoin Core to Knots, miners to Mara, I dive into the heart of the network. Too much cost on nodes could break this balance—think mempool bloat, OP Return, Runes, Ordinals, even ETFs and NFTs clogging blockspace. Developers shape the rules, but nodes enforce them. Watch now—uncover why nodes are Bitcoin’s backbone and how to keep them thriving!
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Hello there and welcome to the HashPower Academy. My name is Jacob Scandalan. I’m the lead educator here at the academy and this is your place to learn anything and everything to do with Bitcoin from the fundamentals. Now the topic of today’s video is looking at the current debate uh with the Bitcoin community, Bitcoin core and their decision to want to increase the OP return limit which allows essentially more arbitrary information to be able to store in the Bitcoin blockchain. And the key question for you is what price would you pay? What price should you pay to store information online forever? And the the back end of that very interesting question is that the Bitcoin nodes are the volunteers of the Bitcoin network. They are storing all of this transaction information. Tik Tok next block. That is a group of people all around the world, thousands of them that all individually have a storage device for storing all of our transactional truth because you can only add Bitcoin blocks to the chain with an expended amount of energy from the mining sector producing compute producing Bitcoin. and those holding Bitcoin, those are the ones paying to store their transaction information in the Bitcoin blockchain. So the nodes are a series of interconnected people having updates from the miners of a new block for new transactions to be stored and they are being informed as to that minor saying, “Well, I want to store this group of transactions in the blockchain.” And you got everyone holding Bitcoin and those running nodes broadcasting that they want to store their transaction information in the block. And so the nodes are these volunteers in the middle whilst the Bitcoin holders are paying fees to the miners and the miners are continually adding more blocks to the chain to collect those fees. So miners are incentivized to produce as much block space as possible because they get paid for doing so and they get subsidy as well. And subsidy right now is the majority of a miner’s revenue. It’s 98 99% of the total block reward of both subsidy and fees. But we inevitably into the future go to a point of time where there is no more subsidy. the 21 million units of digital real estate of Manhattan, the first purchases of this prime digital real estate that is a bidding auction of electricity and compute that is continued now for over a decade at least and is going to go forward multiple more decades 100 plus years of the bidding auction of electricity and compute into Bitcoin. But with price sitting on top as well, uh price has been the one thing that a lot of people have focused on the most. But let’s go back in time. Let’s go back to the dawn of Satoshi Nakamoto consuming a small amount of energy in his CPU to produce a small amount of hash rate which he produced his own Bitcoin blocks and stored his own Bitcoin with his own private key. And so you have this complete vertical integration of all the responsibilities and node running at the start of Bitcoin was that functionality that every computer was producing hash rate, producing blocks and preserving their own private keys. And so at the dawn of time, mining wasn’t an industry. and holding your private keys and being a Bitcoin holder wasn’t an industry in the sense of it’s fragmenting now into wallets and platforms and exchanges and layer twos and ETFs that on the financial side above the Bitcoin blockchain the responsibilities of holding your own private keys has obiscated. If you’re if you’re holding your Bitcoin with an ETF, you’re essentially, you know, letting someone else be responsible for your for your digital money. That is a double-edged sword. And then on the mining side of things, as mining got harder and harder because as more people uh joined the party to get their slice of the cake, more people, smaller slice. And so the the timeline of mining has required more energyintensive, more efficient computers and it’s broadened out into its own industry. It’s a m mining is a multi-billion dollar industry and it’s delving deeper and deeper into the energy sector. And so you’ve got everything underneath Bitcoin producing blocks expanding out into the energy sector. And you got everything in the financial side expanding out into the financial sector. But what has not changed in the middle? It’s those that run a node. That you’ve got the miners incentivized to add more information to nodes broadcasting blocks of, hey, take this file, add it to your file storage, and let’s all preserve the transactional truth of the Bitcoin chain. And you’ve got holders performing all different types of economic activity all across the planet wanting to pay to store their information in the blocks. But the nodes in the middle are the volunteers. And so going from the past of all responsibilities to produce blocks, store blocks, and own the information, the Bitcoin data money in the blocks started as one in the same job role. But coming to the present, we’ve got now a system which is adding 50 to 100 gigabytes of data uh every year and that will increase. Why? Because if we increase the amount of arbitrary non-information that’s not monetary in form, different file types so to speak into Bitcoin blocks, yes, it does stimulate an increase in the fee rates. Miners, well, well, like Marathon, they are allowing these large files to be stored in Bitcoin blocks because they’re paid for doing so. So to miners, they care about the uh the fee rates because inevitably subsidy disappears and you’re only just getting paid fees. That is the inevitable finality of mining from the mining perspective. that miners are when subsidy is gone, miners will be able to arbitrage, energy, compute aspects of heating systems and selling electricity, but it’s all priced and benchmark against the amount of Bitcoin they can capture per block mined. And so their avenue to capturing this Bitcoin is to store as much information in the block. So this just helps you understand where the miners sit in this debate. And then people holding Bitcoin, they want the fee rate to be as low as possible. So So the access to block space is cheap. So you got miners who want the fee rate to be high as high as possible and Bitcoin holders that want the fee rate to be as low as possible. And interestingly enough, from the things that we teach here at the Hashpower Academy is block rewards get priced against a miner’s compute and energy. If block rewards go up, the value of hardware goes up. But also, the price in which miners are willing to sell their electricity goes up. Alternatively, if you’re holding Bitcoin and the fee rate is really low, the amount of electricity you can buy with your Bitcoin increases. So, paradoxically, the lower the fee rate that the amount of uh sats per virtual bite that you need to to store your transaction information in blocks, uh well, if the fee rate is really low, your Bitcoin allows you to buy more electricity and thus increasing its purchasing of power by literally uh being able to buy power from miners in in a future state. And then the miners, they want to be paid as much. And so holders want naturally low fee rates, but right now blocks are empty. And on the mining side, yeah, blocks being empty is an economic problem to the security budget. The the difficulty adjustment increasing is that as price and the value of Bitcoin increases, its security is increasing in tandem, which is important. And I think the key danger point is if we ever see one four-year cycle where difficulty does not increase, that would be the key danger I I believe for Bitcoin. And then what doesn’t change, we’ve talked about the past where it all used to be one in the same role. You ran a laptop, produced your own block, stor stored the information, and owned your own Bitcoin with your own private keys. And now it’s expanded out into wallets, apps, IUS, and not even running a full node anymore. People have pruned nodes and partial nodes and mining where the majority of miners don’t even run a node. They are just hash rate sellers. They’re not producing their own blocks. They are selling their hash rate, the the compute commodity, so to speak. They’re selling their hash rate to a mining pool and being paid Bitcoin whilst the whilst the mining pool is the the the the business entity of running a node so to speak. And mining as a mining and holding Bitcoin are the economical circulating economy around the nodes, but the nodes still in the middle are volunteers. So this is a very tricky and in intricate conversation when looking into the future. From my perspective, we’re coming from a debt-based money system going onto an energy based money system. We’re in the the ter the tumultuous change in that process right now in the point of time. And I believe if blocks are empty, that’s a problem. So, I don’t think this is I’m going to put out a an idea and I don’t think it’s the right or wrong approach, but I’m obviously looking for people’s thoughts and feedback that have a more technical leaning understanding of of Bitcoin from its from its uh developer sense, which is if blocks are empty, maybe the OP return limit should be slightly higher, but use the difficulty adjustment as as an aggregate for lowering and increasing um the the OP return so that in the peak of the bull market when there’s a lot of transactions flowing around um get rid of the arbitrary information essentially. But in the bottom of the bare market where the p you know the block space is empty and we’re just depending on subsidy which you know that’s not where we want to be. Then maybe open it so that blocks are being filled. But that that does endanger Bitcoin to becoming a cloud storage system. And I do believe that miners will have a lot more economic opportunity in not just hoping and crossing their fingers that the benchmark of their income is based on block rewards, but I believe that block rewards for miners are the least interesting final outcome for their use of compute. that there is, you know, the compute in of itself is the the representation that energy is available in the Bitcoin network and that energy can be sold and it’s being priced against um the fee rate of block rewards. the the global electricity grid of the blockchain comparing to their local uh energy availability that they’ve got a power contract with a quantity of kil and uh as their input and they got an output of bitcoin being mined and they can directly price those two and as they find buyers of energy the more they switch their machines off the more money that miners can earn. So I do see that miners should be building out in the physical root system instead of in the digital ethereical hope that other people’s other people uh take the cost of storing transaction information um aka the volunteers having to well we’re imposing more cost on the volunteers by having them store pictures and videos and music in the Bitcoin blockchain because the nodes if there is more cost to running a node less people will do it. That it’s great that there is mining on the physical side of Bitcoin’s decentralization fragmented across every country, every electrical grid, off-grid um with using network communications such as satellites um and ground stations and and the the internet in of itself is very decentralized. Um, but that digital side of decentralization, the transactional truth of that file, we want that in the hands of as many people running as many nodes, because if you think of the the millions that hold Bitcoin, and then the tiny percentage that run a node, that that truly began with the fragmentation of updating the blockchain, storing the blockchain, and owning the information on the blockchain. as those three fragmented out into finance and energy and running a node in the middle sort of became an enterprise business for mining pools which are still a for-profit business. That fragmentation I believe is where the problems began with people truly trying to wrap their head around the importance of running a node. So the key takeaway is run a node and if you believe that the op return limit should be higher, run Bitcoin core. If you believe it should be lower and you should just store monetary transaction information of economic activity on the network um in in a in a strictly monetary focus the the fragmentation of the central banking system debt based money um and transitioning onto an energy based money. Well, that’s that’s the path that I believe is is the most important from my side of things. I think the second most important transaction type that’s nonmonetary should be electricity because you’ve got you’ve got mining infrastructure deployed across the planet which is continually observing what’s happening on the blockchain already for the majority and it’s the other side of that trade is is is power markets. I do believe that that there should be some form of layer two that has net settlement to the Bitcoin blockchain to aggregate the amount of electricity being consumed and even pricing and trading of energy because as I’ve said there’s already a pricing system that miners right now especially in Texas if you if you Google demand response Bitcoin mining it will come up that miners are literally observing what’s more valuable with my power contract sell the power for X amount per kilowatt or mine into Bitcoin x amount per kilowatt. Which one pays me more? Machine off, sell the power. Machine on, consuming to produce Bitcoin. And that that means that Bitcoin’s most intrinsic market activity is not just block space, but also with energy markets. So, I believe if there was anything non-monetary that should be stored in the Bitcoin blockchain, it should be net settlement of energy trading. But that’s just me. Thoughts, comments, questions, queries? 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What price would you pay? What price should you pay to be able to store information online forever? And what we mean by online is someone else’s computer. And this is the debate right now happening in the Bitcoin community as to how much nonmonetary information should or shouldn’t be stored in the Bitcoin blockchain. And what is the Bitcoin blockchain? It’s other people’s computers all around the world, the Bitcoin nodes. And guess what? The Bitcoin nodes are volunteers. Bitcoin mining fragmented out into its own industry. Originally, people used to mine with their own laptop and they had their own mining, producing their own blocks, earning their own Bitcoin, storing it in their own wallet. Running a wallet has fragmented into apps and platforms and now ETFs and all these sorts of things. Bitcoin mining, the computational energyintensive aspect of running a node, has fragmented into its own multi-billion dollar industry. Energy and finance have fragmented out into these massive industries when it comes to Bitcoin. But guess what hasn’t changed? The node running through the middle. And these volunteers, they’re not paid to add Bitcoin blocks. They are simply storing the Bitcoin blockchain. Because if we trusted one computer, we’ve got 100% trust in that one computer. That is centralization. But if we store that ch same transaction file of database monetary units updated by all the miners all around the world and those updates are sent to all of the nodes of the network. If there’s not one computer but a thousand computers, we’ve distributed the trust among a thousand people. It shifts the percentage to trustless. And it’s not just a thousand people. There’s tens of thousands of Bitcoin nodes and all of these different pieces I’m going to delve into in a much longer video looking at the fact that Bitcoin nodes sit at the heart of the blocks based unit of account market phenomena which is people with Bitcoin paying to store transaction information and the Bitcoin miners being paid to update that blockchain and add that transaction information into the blockchain. But who sits in the middle between this market phenomena of energy and finance? It’s the Bitcoin nodes, the volunteers. And if we impose more cost because of more data on the volunteers of the network, there might be less of them. More cost means less people. We can see it has happened with Bitcoin mining that less and less people are able to mine relative to the technical, electrical, and financial frictions of actually getting into mining. The future of node running and keeping that cost low is fundamental to the success of Bitcoin as an energybased data money. Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy.
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Methane Mining & ASIC Efficiency Economics | Hashpower Academy
Youtube VideosYour Bitcoin mining rig choice is make-or-break—here’s why! Hardware gobbles 60%-90% of CAPEX costs, dwarfing energy for most grid-based ops. But what if you go off-grid? I dive into a methane mining case study from Texas and the Midwest, where stranded gas powers rigs at 1-3¢/kWh. Older, less efficient machines shine here, with faster paybacks than grid setups—think gas generators vs. $7.65M/mile pipelines. Could solar+battery rigs do the same for off-grid communities? I break down the numbers, compare hardware vs. energy CAPEX, and reveal how to pick your rig like a pro. Watch now—nail your mining strategy and profit big!
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Hello there and welcome to the HashPower Academy. My name is Jacob Scandalan. I’m the lead educator here at the academy and this is your place to learn anything and everything to do with Bitcoin from a fundamentals first perspective. I have a question for you. What do you think in the setup of a mining operation is the most expensive part? Is it A the energy or B the mining hardware? Take your pick. The answer is B, the mining hardware. And this is because well for the significant majority of miners they are buying their power on electrical grids. And so the majority of their cost is also the mining machines which can represent 60 70 80 even 90% of their upfront costs for an operation. It can go into multiple millions of dollars per megawatt depending on how efficient the machine that they purchase. And so you’ve got to understand that miners are making so many different decisions on the type of machine, how efficient it is, the cooling system, whether it’s air cooled, immersion or hydro sort of solutions, and the location of those machines, the uptime, the access to repairs. There’s so many different parts that you can learn about. But today’s topic is going to look at methane mining, which changes up those economics in an interesting way. What if instead of buying your power on a grid, you’re actually producing your own power. And so you have a lot more cost in the capex, the setup cost side of things. And so the economics of which mining machine you choose to purchase will actually change because everything from the energy producers to the middle of the city the energy consumers and that price of energy gradually well not in England but gradually getting more expensive uh the further away from production you are and the closer you are to consumption that is a natural phenomena. And so here’s the thing what type of mining machine do methane miners use? oil and gas sites in the middle of nowhere with methane leaking out of drill sites and they have to capture it and burn it. That’s flaring. Or they have this this new opportunity to monetize that energy directly on site by capturing the energy, the methane. uh cleaning it a bit because there can be some impurities that will cause more problems in the generators than than a lot of cleaning and also yeah running that that generator producing electricity to produce uh hash rate to produce Bitcoin blocks to flow that digital energy money into your digital wallet. Now if you are interested in these sorts of things then I recommend you take a look at the hash power academy. We learn about everything and anything to do with Bitcoin from a fundamentals first perspective. And now, interestingly enough, methane mining is that absolute vertical integration, not even from watts to SATs, but also from the natural gas coming out of the ground. So, it’s another commodity layer underneath as well in part of the equation. But the key takeaway for this video is looking at that cost per megawatt with three different types of machine. Now, here’s the thing. On the financial side, a more efficient machine will produce a greater amount of Bitcoin per kilowatt hour because these are the maths side of things on the financial outputs of Bitcoin mining, but we need to look at the energy inputs as well. And that’s going to be the focus of this video. And so here’s the thing. If you have a setup cost of say 500k um of infrastructure set up of deploying a container, a generator and that system of converting methane into electricity. Well, let’s just say 500,000 per megawatt. And then you’ve also including that price of machine on top. Now, here’s the thing. If you are producing your own power, your energy cost is actually about one to three cent one to three cent per kilowatt hour but but it’s in the middle of nowhere so you need some form of solution that can consume the power directly on site and connect to the internet and that’s where Bitcoin mining comes in and why do we burn it well because methane in of itself when it releases up to the atmosphere I think its warming effect is 80 times the strength of CO2 in a 20-year period it breaks down over time so the inevitable solution is to burn it because it’s not economical to capture it and send it off somewhere. There’s there’s more cost in that than its economic value. And so here’s the thing. Bitcoin miners can come and locate onsite, work with or buy or partner with oil and gas producers and monetize that power and also collect carbon credits. So there’s all these other economics that come into play. But yes, let’s look at the economics of the cost per megawatt of three different types of machines. So a megawatt is a million watts. So let’s divide it down. A million watts with a machine that’s producing at 30 watts per terahash, how much hash rate per megawatt are we going to have? Now, this isn’t a standard metric, but it will just help you gain an understanding of how much hash rate you’re going to earn per megawatt, which also helps you understand how much Bitcoin per megawatt you’ll earn as well. 33.3 well 33,000 33 33. So with this efficiency of mining hardware, you’re going to produce 33,000 terraash of compute, which multiply by this amount of Bitcoin that you’re going to earn per terahash per day. You can multiply that out and you would get well $65 per megawatt. I get that right. Now, uh, on the 20 watts per terahash machine efficiency, you’ve got, uh, a million divided by 20, which is 50,000. So, you’re earning 50,000. You’re producing 50,000 terraash per megawatt. And there’s a point to this. Uh, with the 10 watt, we can just double that 100,000. So, you’re producing a 100,000 terraash per megawatt. That means that you can with these machines, you would have a greater quantity of machines with that same megawatt uh site. Now, here’s the thing. Different machines have different prices based on their different efficiencies. So if we uh if we multiply the uh $4 per terahash upfront capex multiplied by the amount of hash rate we need to obviously consume one megawatt. Well that is $133,000.33.3 okay $133,000 per megawatt with the least efficient hardware. And this is the next one. 700,000 700k and uh the most efficient machines producing the most amount of hash rate per megawatt earning the most amount per kilowatt hour. It sounds like the right decision, but here’s the thing. It’s 2 and a half 2.4 2.4 million $2.4 $4 million to purchase enough machines to be consuming one megawatt. And here’s the thing, mining is an opportunity to accumulate a greater quantity of Bitcoin over time. So, if you buy uh machines at $4 a terraash, you want that one terraash of compute, you can scale it to the machine amount. You want to produce $4 worth of Bitcoin at this rate. And this means effectively if you’re just looking revenue without adding and without removing the electrical cost side of things um trying to reach $4 from earning four call it 5 cent per day. Uh that’s a lot easier than uh having the most efficient machine uh that’s costing $24 a terraash and that obviously extrapolates out to the amount of cost per megawatt. So when you combine your setup cost of your generator, container, networking, infrastructure as well, all those pieces all as a flow of uh methane producing electricity to produce compute to produce Bitcoin, you got your $500,000 setup cost combined with one of these three. And so what happens is uh producers of energy will typically buy the more old uh less efficient mining hardware because they just have less capex and also they have extremely cheap power or wasted power in a lot of cases. And so the economics make sense where they’ll make a lot more money by buying the more inefficient machines. And there’s a second reason to this. This requires a high uptime to to to truly achieve that break even point. You’ve got the combination of also the uptime of the machine. And here’s the thing, in a environment such as the middle of nowhere oil and gas field, there might be times where machines go down, get dusty, and all those sorts of things. And so you need a solution to or sorry, you need to choose a machine that has a shorter payback period because machines will just go down. they will get broken. Whatever the reasons are, that’s just the dayto-day of mining. You can keep them really clean, change the filters all the time to prevent as much thermal damage as possible, but you inevitably are going to deal with the the forces of the real world. And so you don’t want to be putting the latest, most efficient mining machines worth millions of dollars in volume on a site that doesn’t have great uptime, has great economics, but those economics aren’t your concern because you’ve got cheap power. Now, I think this will also translate across to those eyeing up the idea of combining say um a solar battery setup, say at home or your off-grid community in the middle of the jungle, whatever it is. If you have access to producing power, the economics of buying the most efficient machines don’t make sense unless you have extremely high uptime. That is the 95 to 100% which call it the 95 to even 99 percentile. You get the gist. Now the other side of that is you also get carbon credits. So you’ve got this yield of earning carbon credits which is based on your energy consumption. you get you combine it with the cheap machines to produce a good amount of Bitcoin even when deducting your your energy costs or your staffing costs which could be say 2 cent per kilowatt hour um when comparing it to the electrical side of things. And this is the key variable here. The network determines what we are paid for exporting that energy onto the internet. And so having the carbon credits aspect, but also this lack of control of our true amount of income per terahash per day, it means that you want to reduce your upfront cost as much as possible. I think I’ll leave it there. Um, if you want a video looking at say the economics of solar battery um, as an upfront setup cost combined with a cheap machine or a really efficient latest generation machine. Um, that’ll be another video, I believe. Um, and also if there’s any of you out there just putting out to the universe that have oil and gas fields, um, and you want to explore methane mining as a potential solution for you and you want some crazy Brit to come and do some content and storytelling and even potential business, you just let me know. And uh, yeah, I’ll leave it from there. Hope you enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next one. Goodbye.
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Why Finance Fumbles Bitcoin: Commodity Truth Revealed | Hashpower Academy
Youtube VideosWall Street’s missing the Bitcoin boat! I’m calling out the finance industry’s knowledge gap—BTC isn’t just a digital asset or USD ticker; it’s a commodity with cycles like oil or gold. Forget price hype—Bitcoin’s real pulse is its BTC/kWh exchange rate, the network’s average production cost. I break it down: halvings slash miners’ BTC earnings, doubling production costs (same energy bill, half the reward). Take 2020’s COVID crash—BTC tanked to $4k (production floor), then soared to $8k (new floor). Why? Price frontruns halving-driven cost shifts! From MSTR’s bold bets to Jack Mallers’ Lightning vision, finance pros need this. Watch now—ditch the USD lens, master BTC’s commodity game, and outsmart the next cycle!
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3 Levels of Bitcoin Mining: Learn–Earn–Scale | Hashpower Academy
Youtube VideosReady to mine Bitcoin like a pro? I unveil 3 game-changing steps to dive in, cash out, and dominate—friction-free!
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Start small with the BitAxe Mini Miner (1TH). Unravel the network’s magic: plug in electricity, churn out hashrate, and watch Bitcoin trickle out. I break down the tech—how it connects, from power to payout. Fancy small wins? Tap L2 Lightning for instant micro-payments. Feeling lucky? Solo mine for a block lottery ticket—your shot at a jackpot! This is your Bitcoin bootcamp—grasp the basics and join the 1%.
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there and welcome to the hash power academy fun fact of the 100% of the world barely 1% have probably got into Bitcoin now if you zoom into that 1% and zoom it out barely 1% of that 1% are into Bitcoin mining and it is to say that if you look back in history the pioneers if you look today the pioneers and if you look into tomorrow the pioneers of the future tend to be the rewarded the most but they take the most upside risk so the first thing to understand about the progressional steps into Bitcoin mining is that mining is the uh the forefront of energy and technology innovation and it takes no prisoners but if you are here to learn that is always going to be the first stage because you can make these two progressional steps less painful in terms of finance your time and energy if you learn all of the absolute fundamentals and everything that can go wrong that’s the key thing if you learn what can go wrong you can understand and move through what’s going right so let’s dive into this very interesting video but first let me introduce myself hello there and welcome to the Hash Power Academy my name is Jake Scandlin i’m the lead educator here and this is a place for you to delve into anything and everything to do with Bitcoin and its underlying network of technologies and commodities you can learn everything to do with how we produce energy transfer it over time how we produce compute power and transfer it over time and how we produce Bitcoin blocks and you can guess the last one last but not least how we produce Bitcoin and transfer it over time all these different components are all interconnected through maths and physics to make the finance component last now let’s dive in so the three progressional steps into Bitcoin mining boil down to what I like to call learn earn and scale before you make the painful mistakes here and here you better learn the basics now the most key important thing is you need to start small start with something that allows you to understand how it all connects together this little guy allows me to understand how much energy it consumes how much hash rate that it produces and how much that earns in terms of a quantity of Bitcoin representative to the entire network i’m going to put it over there so uh the first thing to understand is you are not buying a mini miner to make a profit this is an educational tool and yes they are one chip with a load of components so they are more expensive versus hundreds of chips with fewer components shall we say and so what you need to understand that you are buying something to learn and what you’ll understand is okay I plug it in I consume electricity it produces hash rate ah I need to connect it to the Wi-Fi and connect that to either a pool or solo mining so let’s write pool a mining pool or you are taking the risk of going solo now the problem with going solo is unless you find a block you are not going to earn any bitcoin and the reason for this is well right now if you spent $100 million uh at scale and divided that by $20 per terash you would have 500 no sorry you would have 5 million terraash now the network is $800 million so divide 5 million divided by 800 million and then multiply it by your 144 opportunities per day to find a block you will get an answer of 0.9 so to find barely one block per day you need a hundred million dollars worth of mining hardware so the chances of getting one in a day very very expensive very slim to none in a week month year decade thousands of years even the the chance to find a block with a bit is very very low so the alternative to playing the game of lottery because that’s what it is which is fine you do that the other chance is to use a layer two for payouts now the reason why you would want to use a layer 2 is because a mini miner is going to earn such a small quantity of Bitcoin relative to anything at scale that you would want to well still be paid out but here’s the thing that a lot of the uh the layer one payout I’m going to just use or uh red orange layer one payouts they require you to earn relatively 100 $200 $300 worth of Bitcoin at this moment in time and with a mini miner you were not going to earn that much so the key takeaway here for this entire entire learn chain and everything on hashp power academy YouTube is delving into all these different pieces is you are interconnecting and learning about okay it consumes energy to produce compute to produce bitcoin and I can be paid out or I can play the lottery of trying to find a a block of 3.2 to Bitcoin all the option the optionality is run it into a pool and connect it to a pool that has lightning payouts such as brains uh it goes off to Antpool but anyway that’s a topic for another day um and then when we’re looking at the earn side of things this is this is key and fundamental you could have gone through stage one and bought a mini minor but now you’re looking at the economics this is the important part everything to do with here is learning the technicals with the stage two we’re going into the financials and then with this you’re going more into the electricals so with this you’re understanding okay I want to economically mine which is I want to understand a quantity of bitcoin I could have purchased versus a terraash for example okay how much bitcoin do I want it to earn i want it to earn more uh bitcoin than I could have just purchased in the first place so economic mining is buying the power cheap and producing uh the amount of bitcoin per kilowatt in greater quantity so I can recommend if if your energy is less than 7 cent you have the potential to self mine but you would want to get an efficient machine a low jewels per terahash if you’ve got power at home greater than seven cents it hosting hosting is your your opportunity there but the key thing with with hosting or self let’s just write these in self you might have a solar setup at home here’s the thing this is going to be uh this is going to have different optionalities in all different places but it’s truly down to you the individual if you have your own solar setup already you’ve got excess power and I do invite you if you have a battery solar or net metering setup with the grid anywhere that you have excess electricity available to you mining is an opportunity to visualize that kilowatt hour as a quantity of money an ability to store the money in excess so self or hosted right now the next piece of this is um the type of payouts so this is going to be out of scope for this video but mining pools have different payout types so you’re understanding the economics of if you’ve got cheap power at home yes you could selfmine but the sensible thing is most people don’t have access to power and that’s why most people don’t get into mining and so if you have a hosted setup well you almost also have the option to probably decide which uh payout method you’re going to use the typical ones are F PPP yeah I always have to remember these fps is this is what the network is earning and the mining pool is just paying you on those theoretical profits so it’s not what the actual pool finds itself in terms of blocks and then distributing out to those miners connecting to their pool but actually just what the network is earning and there’s some issues with oh if fees spike and your pool captures those fees but pays you what the network earned which wasn’t that fee average then you’re missing out in certain places but again this is out of scope for this video and the other one would be say P LNS again out of scope this is the pool finds a block distributes that block in layman’s terms but the overall approach here is this is you’re trying to understand the basics here of I’m consuming energy running it through my computer i paid this amount which is not great but it’s an educational tool i could so solo mine and lottery mine or run it into a pool connecting to the pool and getting payouts on layer 2 lightning and then with with a machine you’re looking at the electrical decision under sends seven cents or six cent 5 cent if you’ve got a less efficient machine available to buy and if your if your energy at home is more than seven cent which the majority of people it will yeah it’s uh hosting is your opportunity and then with the price of the machine this is the thing let’s say you bought one a one terraash uh machine for $200 but what if you bought a 200 terraash machine for $20 combine that together you spend a total amount of 200 time 20 that’s $4,000 plus the $200 for this so a total spend with one machine and one Bitax Mini miner you’ve spent two $4,200 and the total amount of hash rate you’ve got is one plus 200 so you do your $4,200 divided by 201 and your average your dollar per terahash average when you’ve gone from this step to that step which is one machine you’ve lowered the cost of this machine by 90% almost by being by lowering it to $20.89 per terahash so yeah just by taking that step from buying a mini miner to buying a whole machine at $20 a terraash you’ve lowered your average price total in in total per terahash to $20.89 $89 per terahash so that’s just a way to move from the oh I pay overpaid per terahash to I’ve lowered it by by going into the financial aspects so just to recap you’re either mining at home because you’ve got cheap power or you’ve got expensive power obviously your only option is host one machine as this example but typical hosting setups yes there’s platforms to buy one machine but with with these computers the more you buy in bulk you’re going to get better prices and so yeah there’s there’s typical sites that’ll offer minimums of you know 10 machine purchase or even 100 machine or even a one megawatt minimum but we’ll uh we’ll go through that in a second your different payout options at the mining pool so you’re sending and exporting your energy onto the internet and you can be paid out on the layer one side of things a couple of transactions per per month there’s different pools that define uh you want to be paid in a certain amount of time uh like say once a month or once a week um or in certain quantity a certain quantity is mined and then they pay it out to which wallet of choosing and typically just about every pool doesn’t charge you for fees so you can be accumulating Bitcoin without fees through the electricity bill that’s another interesting angle now this is where it all gets interesting you you’ve learned the technicals of how it all connects together you’ve learned the financials of how the input cost and output Bitcoin and the machine in the middle that you’re paying off over time and you want to obviously get a cheap uh dollar per terahash rate but the the pricing of machines the less efficient they are the less Bitcoin per kilowatt they earn they’ll be cheaper the more expensive machines the more Bitcoin per kilowatt they produce but you’ve still got to think of that input cost output Bitcoin your profit and how many how many cycles of uh earning profit is it going to take to pay that machine off in in time your payback period so to speak and if you get that far you’ve learned lots and most people will probably just make it to this stage of maybe one machine or a couple of machines or running them at home using it as an electric heater to heat your house or a pool or something like that there’s all different things that can take a lot of time and a lot of interesting directions that you can go with the earn side of this um but this is where it gets interesting the scale how big can this scale well um the basic parts and I think they get more expensive as they go down basically is you could essentially getting those payouts to your own hardware wallet wallet you’re getting payout pays out getting payouts to your own hardware wallet so you’re you’re sovereign in your private key so to speakish um your own node so that’s the data side of things if you are solo mining at this scale which we’ll discuss um you’re going to be storing the data solo mining requires you essentially to store that entire transaction file so this is where you’re delving into nodes so you could be having your own wallet to store the the data money storing the data which verifies your data money and adding those Bitcoin blocks which is you’ve you’re producing enough compute at enough scale to potentially add Bitcoin blocks to the chain in relative periods of time that align to your energy bill because you’ve got to think of this as input energy bill output Bitcoin if you lottery mine one of these you’ll just about never mine a block with this it would take forever but you’d essentially be just constantly paying an energy bill with no economic return this is why we have mining pools and their different payout options and different payout uh levels in in terms of the chain and in terms of the Bitcoin side of things yeah this is uh well hang on I’m going to write solo here and data here i’ve written this the wrong way around so solo node so everything to do with the data um that’s that’s the most important aspect here if you’re verifying uh your transactions your trades your issuance all these sorts of things with your own node your own information and you could be solo mining but this is where it gets interesting because this is more focused on the uh compute side of things that if you’re scaling from hosted to I just want to continue to host there is benefits to scaled hosting and these sorts of benefits are demand response when you’re when you have enough mining machines uh over say one megawatt of energy consumption a thousand kilowatts that’s when you can be exploring the option of doing demand response which is which I’ve discussed on this channel as that opportunity that you have the bitcoin price your production cost and the electrical grid rate sort of in the middle and when the energy price goes above the rate of revenue you you switch off and sell power or underclock and when the price of energy drops below your contractual rate of uh u electricity dollars per kilowatt or megawatt uh when when your when the energy price drops below or goes negative because there’s a load of wind a load of solar but no one’s using power or the prices go negative you will be paid to consume the power on top of that revenue rate of Bitcoin per kilowatt hour and so demand response is is the other side of the trade you’ve got buying energy to produce Bitcoin and then demand response is that the hurdle for this is to be producing about a megawatt where is demand response so demand response is being able to energy trade so with Bitcoin you’re sort of doing financial trade of consume energy in fiat and pay out in Bitcoin and energy trading is you’re selling energy to buy Bitcoin because you can sell the energy in a greater quantity u sorry you can sell the energy to produce or earn or buy a greater quantity of Bitcoin um it’s the other way round and the other side of that is well yeah this is this is the option of being on the grid grid power the other option and this is the fully stacked vertical option is you’re producing your own power could be as small as a single solar panel battery if you want uh cons producing that excess energy running it into your own machine producing your own bitcoin storing that information in your own node and that money in your own wallet that is you vertically integrated from watts to sats so demand response is the grid side but what would be the production side i think it should be micro grids the long-term path is if you producing your own power why not have a community built around that where you are selling power at the rate in which you can turn that energy into Bitcoin so that’s electricity defined on a Bitcoin unit of account and as we scale all different sorts of um micro grids that consume Bitcoin um consume Bitcoin well yes that’s correct the micro grids that uh consume energy to produce compute to produce Bitcoin that defines a price for those kilowatt hours why would that miner want to switch the machine off to sell the power to his local micro grid he would sell it at the rate in which he can earn the quantity of Bitcoin per kilowatt and the more he sells the power the the more efficient the machine gets so he can earn at that even higher rate so the miner is incentivized to earn even more Bitcoin by providing energy abundance at that local level that is so powerful to me but the main thing here is produce your own energy produce your own electricity sell it locally at the rate of revenue of Bitcoin and then that choice between uh using the grid demand response hosting the machines potentially uh that’s a minimum of about a megawatt say 50 pahash which is 50,000 terraash divide it all down that’s 20 jewels per terahash efficiency roughly and so the other option is you’re producing your own power maybe building out your own micro grid uh citadel mini uh off-grid community uh you’re self mining you’re running your own machines and you’re getting these uh machines at a cheaper price this is the other thing this would be the this would be spot buying buying your machine spot or a hardware reseller this is you’re buying at the scale of buying directly from manufacturer which can be uh futures and this is important uh if you’re continually buying over time because if you buy a machine and it’s to be delivered in five six months and you lock in a certain price per terahash let’s say 14 let’s say over the six months that you’re waiting to get your machines because you’re still building out your energy production side and your land and your whatever else uh let’s say the price of machines dropped to $10 a terraash there are manufacturers such as Bitmain that will uh essentially let you hedge the downside price of machine devaluation and they will give you credits essentially to buy more machines from them of course um but it it gives you a hedge if you know you’re going to continually buy more machines into the future you have you have that opportunity to to obviously lock in downside risk mitigation um yeah that’s that’s the overall gist you that might have been a little bit too much but oh well so it’s you produce your own energy run it through your own machine produce some compute connect it to a mining pool or solo mine and pay out in the layer two then you shift to the economics of buying a machine at a great enough volume of hash rate to get that price down earn say you know a decent amount decent payout on the layer 1 blockchain without fees typically and that decision is typically decided by your electrical cost at home or you don’t want to run the machines at home we want to obfiscate the electrical and technical aspects and just put the finance side up which is hosting and then if you want to scale that to producing your own power running your own micro grid to source machines at volume or demand response trade on the grid get uh hedging the downside risk of buying those machines and at a lower price with wholesale purchases and that opportunity to either solo mine or run into a pool and the different options of running your own nodes securing and verifying your transactions and storing that bitcoin in your own wallet uh it can be as optional as optional and simple as something at home that’s small or as big as a city and a uh multi- grid multi- multi micro grids all around the world but they’re all priced at the same quantity of Bitcoin per kilowatt hour i think that’s going to be an amazing future where inefficiencies of trade and logistics are reduced to the point where goods and services trade and money transfers through the internet in the opposite direction thank you for listening i hope this was a very insightful video uh if you have questions drop them down below if you want to get a mini miner I think I have a link in the description of course and if you want to get into hosted mining drop me a call drop me a call drop me a message or an email and I will um address the scale of investment that you’re looking for at those sorts of quantities and give you some form of insight um into what’s available but again not financial advice i’m not a financial adviser and if you want to build a Bitcoin citadel definitely drop me a message because I’m finding I’m finding people all around the world that seem to have this sort of dream in their minds of this energy abundant world and I think that’s what we should strive for because the cheaper energy gets the well everything just gets easier and more abundant and that combination of energy and technology allows us to just operate in a world that is just so much more advanced and progressive towards the future and all the parallels with AI and cloud computing as well thank you for listening i hope you enjoy and I’ll see you in the next one goodbye
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is Bitcoin going to flood into real estate in a financialized context of mortgages and collateral or are real estate investors and real estate investment trusts going to flood into Bitcoin selling everything and dumping the market or is it going to be a combination of the two a chaotic storm on the horizon with the debt money system of yesterday and the Bitcoin hard deflationary digital energy money of tomorrow This is going to be the topic of today’s video But first let’s reintroduce myself Hello there Welcome to the Hash Power Academy My name is Jake Scandlin I’m the lead educator here at the academy And this is a place for you to learn anything and everything about Bitcoin but also its underlying network of technologies and commodities We teach from a fundamentals first perspective delving into everything to do with energy Then compute Bitcoin mining which produces all the Bitcoin blocks of the blockchain which issues and distributes that full supply of 21 million fixed units of Bitcoin So the first place to start with this is I’m going to just show you the uh the average house price versus the average salary And I’ve used the UK as an example And as you can clearly see that year over year since uh 1970s particularly that’s an interesting uh moment in time to understand that our debt money well it was disconnected from gold so to speak and uh since that point the average ratio between the average salary per year versus the average house price went from four years to 5 years to 6 years to seven years you can get where I’m going with this to eight years Now what does that mean it means it takes more time for young people for example they have a housing crisis to afford property And those with the property they did well They escaped inflation The expansion of the money supply very much correlates with house prices And with a debt money system that has heavily financialized real estate and mortgages essentially are well if you have a 5% deposit on a house which is the 100% you’re 20x leveraged The price of the house can drop 5% and then you’re in trouble And uh that sort of uh that sort of situation happened in a particular moment of time such as 2008 where uh the bankers uh may have uh ruined a few things and uh the citizens paid for it That sounds great And uh basically these are all the issues of the debt money system But what we also want to understand is what a hard deflationary energybased currency of tomorrow will contribute to this For example the debt money system creates a circumstance where asset prices have to go up because as mentioned if uh the prices drop then people essentially default on their mortgages and that is a very serious societal problem And so the easy solution is to paper over the issues Now when it comes to this sort of asset inflation well where does it end um because you’ve got this tipping point of wealthy people with lots of properties in in an investment portfolio context where one house is a necessity You want to live somewhere Everyone does want to live somewhere And on the other side of that you’ve got young people and the concern of regulators Why are all these young people taking risk high risk with things like Bitcoin well it’s because they see the very same assets that their parents and grandparents purchased Oh I got my house in my 20ies with a couple of pay packets It’s like uh yeah we need to what save for an entire decade And by the time we’ve saved for a decade um the cost of the house is now 15 years for a deposit Uh yeah that’s the problem And so what we need to do is wipe the slate slate clean and understand some of the tipping points with a form of hard deflationary energy money that is entering uh well just about every part of the financial world and every part of the energy sector Bitcoin is on and off every electrical grid across the planet expanding energy and compute in a fixed supply of 21 million units So continual increase in purchasing power And so if we give this a real estate context let’s say right now that it’s about four four bitcoin for one property where do you think the tipping point will be where do you think that that that mindset of okay I’ve got all these properties and on a bitcoin unit of account they are continually declining That the value of a house um in a quantity of bitcoin continually decreases For example there are people that they had hundreds or thousands of Bitcoin early early on and still made in dollar terms millions of dollars for it And so they sold some they sold hundred or a thousand Bitcoin to buy a house And years later they may have sold it but uh they didn’t get 100 or,000 Bitcoin back They got like four And uh it makes you think oh well uh I should have just kept all my thousands of Bitcoin But I think over time we’re going to have this continual rollover of people uh in society investing on spending their Bitcoin on their necessities versus their wants Why own a portfolio of five homes um when you live in one and four others are essentially land banking and that’s what the fiat money system has created in society is um people trying to escape inflation by holding assets assets that other people may want to use as a necessity versus an investment And if uh you own a bunch of multif family homes um there’s an ethical concern there that there’s other people that want that ownership psychology of owning their own place And if there’s an artificial scarcity of properties all being owned by a select few that can create societal problems I’m not saying it’s necessarily bad because if you have the capital to buy it it’s yours That’s that’s our that’s our ownership structure in society And they say possession is 9/10en of the law So I believe that the key tipping point is when the average house price is under one bitcoin I just think uh there’s there’s people that have a quantity psychology that say “Oh Bitcoin’s too expensive I can’t buy a whole one.” You can buy fractional It goes down to eight decimals of of the quantity that you can purchase But I believe that tipping point that when one bitcoin is uh the average house price is less than one bitcoin I think that’s going to open the eyes of a lot of investors And does that create some form of selling event not today not tomorrow but progressively over time where house prices continually drop because there is this flood of other markets and other investments being sold to go into Bitcoin And so if we give this the examples of today right now I think in pounds it’s about 200 to 300,000 uh per house average house price And in dollars that’s like 400 to 500k 500k So yeah if Bitcoin reaches these sorts of levels in dollar terms and we see that tipping point of the average house price at a particular moment in time crossing below the average uh stat statistics published by the government shall we say that the average house price is now less than one whole bitcoin that has to that has to um make someone’s eyes open and it would be a serious tipping event But the other side of that is if there’s other people with mortgages that are leveraged you know if your whatever whatever your debt is versus the value of the house if the value of the houses continually drop to their utility value which is essentially what’s probably going to happen if there’s this flood towards Bitcoin is the debt money system collapses prices back down to their utility value And the utility value of a house is not the current price of the houses at the moment And so that’s a concern So how do we address that concern while still having a debt money system well this is where it gets interesting because right now there’s all different people trying to financialize Bitcoin in the context of real estate So not just uh this flood of money coming from real estate and selling houses into Bitcoin but how Bitcoin could be part of people’s mortgages So that your collateral position is essentially whatever your debt is Whatever your debt is let’s just do a negative there You’ve got maybe this potential Let’s I don’t know what the debt will be Let’s just say 80% you’ve paid off some of it And the value of your house starts at the value of your house starts at um let’s just do a little picture The value of your house starts at the 100% in reference to the 80% you’ve paid off Um but what if house prices drop 20% you’re in serious problems Yes you’re continually paying this off with interest but what if what if a small chunk of Bitcoin was added that’s the that’s the interesting thing because we’re we’re we’re comparing this tipping event where the the the price of Bitcoin in dollar terms because we have to do a dollar-based unit of account with this If the dollar price of Bitcoin is shooting up because there is this flood of money coming uh out of real estate into Bitcoin and demonetizing these sorts of assets one of the healthiest things for individuals to protect themselves uh from the risk of the the collapse of the debt money system in the context of uh investors flooding out of an asset class If you are in that asset class with some form of debt associated to those assets then Bitcoin might just be that hedge essentially against the the the decline of asset of house prices So if house prices dropped uh I’m just going to draw it all out now If house prices dropped but the Bitcoin and your collateral increased it’s essentially a hedge against uh the deflationary uh environment that you’re in that you’ve got this hard hard asset and that that just might help Um real estate isn’t exactly my specialty but I’d love people to dive into the comments with these sorts of perspectives But yeah having having collateral that is a portfolio essentially of different things that just might make the difference Um but what’s the pristine collateral it’s Bitcoin It has its volatility in dollar terms as well So any form of debt that you would have you’d be measuring the dollar value of the Bitcoin which is volatile in space but preserves value over time But I think I think mortgages with Bitcoin are probably one of the best things that could be done and potentially it lowers interest rates as well as it represents itself um in a lower you’re adding collateral versus your debt So you should effectively have um lower risk premiums But we will see I think I’m going to stop it there But yeah I’m very interested to see multiple different assets um drop below one whole Bitcoin Assets of all different size and scale Uh there’s also the one of the market cap of when it outpaces gold and all the other top 10 um assets uh in ranking Yeah Thank you for listening Hope you enjoy Uh go into the comments if there’s anything I’ve missed or not said correctly Please correct me because we’re all trying to learn here So yeah thank you for listening Hope you enjoy Goodbye
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hello there and welcome to the hash power academy today I have an interesting video for you to look at the five logarithmic steps these objective milestones 10xing each time to reach one whole bitcoin that is starting with acquiring one 10,000th of a bitcoin then a thousandth of a bitcoin then a 100th of a bitcoinet and then one whole bitcoin now you’ve got to understand there’s two things to consider here that each step is going to take more time and this is because well as you’re going through these milestones Bitcoin is gaining value it’s a currency in fixed supply with energy and compute and dollars all expanding underneath it so when you have a currency with absolute scarcity you’re essentially uh defining a milestone at the top of a mountain that is continually getting steeper as you walk up and so what you have to measure and this video I hope is relevant whether you watch this today as I post it or in 10 years or in a 100 years or even a thousand years that your relativity of yourself as an individual today and what you can earn with your time and energy or your other assets well they’re all going to have a quantifiable amount of money but that is going to diminish over time because Bitcoin is a deflationary energy currency and so it respects and preserves its time and energy and appreciates over time but well your particular moment in time it’s going to have a particular value an exchange rate and so you are objectively uh participating in the unit bias game of going I want one whole bitcoin but that is going to just get harder or in dollars more expensive over time and so I’m just going to take you through some progressional steps as to how you can get to one whole bitcoin if that’s if that’s your goal um or somewhere along the way decide that you’re happy with the amount that you have and the other piece of this to think about is you have to look through the money because you have to think of it like this your income your time and energy into a quantity of dollars or pounds or euros or whatever it is um that’s not the that’s not the first that’s just the first step the second step is well when you go to spend it it seems to buy you less over time and so money is that medium of exchange your time and energy stored in something and it just seems to disappear by the time you reach the point of buying goods and services and so when you think about the quantity of Bitcoin that you want think about the experiences and time and energy that you want to spend in life and that money affording you that ability to do so because time is essentially the scarcest currency that we do have not the Bitcoin but nevertheless let’s go through these stages so different people in the world we all have different ability to access and generate income so sensibly $8 might be a really important milestone to one person but a one-off purchase to another or person living in New York City may spend $800 very quickly but to someone else in the world that’s an entire year’s worth of income or even less and and what this means is that this these goals are going to be specific to each individual person and their ability to locally access um well energy energy resources in monetary form so the first goal is layer two and the reason why I say layer two is you need to be considering the fact that eight or $80 worth of Bitcoin is very very small and this could be essentially a fee that’s that’s the cost of a fee so you want to be using something like the lightning network and being paid on the lightning network just to begin with uh there is a discussion within within that is can we actually be self-s sovereign with uh layer 1 block space getting more and more expensive well there’s the aspects of these layer 2s having quite an extensive amount of decentralization but it’s a it’s an ongoing debate shall we say and the first things here be to to achieve these two steps is is to learn about opening a wallet uh a lightning wallet for example and and learning that’s the key one so we’re going to just write learn learn and acquire so you’re going to have to generate a wallet secure the the 12 words or the 24 words or the private key whichever component that that is provided and secure that small amount of Bitcoin or jump straight to the 80 or $800 Bitcoin part and the layer 2 part is most important because um it’s it’s going to be that layer that’s more for micro payments and small amounts of Bitcoin and so you really want to be focusing on fee optimization with this as well and the second amount of $80 jumping jumping to 1,000th of a bitcoin you could potentially uh use your skills your knowledge and provide it online if you have access to the internet you have the ability to earn money but you’ve got to find it you’ve got to have that curiosity to go out and solve someone’s problem be productive in society and and and see what someone will pay you oh can I pay you in uh can can you pay me in Bitcoin do the work and and settle set settle that internet trade with internet money so to speak now this is the next one $800 or 0.0.1 Bitcoin as of now um this this one’s more about saving in Bitcoin and what I mean by saving is over time um 800 Bitcoin 800 Bitcoin $800 worth of Bitcoin or 0.0.1 not one um that’s going to be something that you accumulate over time so it’s it’s saving in Bitcoin you have your income you have your expenses i hope they’re less than your income and that chunk that’s you’re left over with that’s your your savings what percentage of that you choose to save in Bitcoin should be matching your confidence level if you’re 100% about Bitcoin you could use 100% not financial advice it’s up to you if you’re 50% confidence about Bitcoin maybe use 50% of your savings is always dealing with your expenses lowering your expenses increasing your income and widening that margin but the key thing here as well is you’ve got to measure the amount of blocks between these steps how long in time does it take because remember when you measure when you measure your achievements through these milestones in time you make it individual to you because yes Michael sailor’s buying the next thousand bitcoin 10,000 bitcoin whatever whatever crazy amount others are doing you’re not them we are all to individuals so it’s all about your individual experience and accumulation for yourself because the whole thing about bitcoin is it respects and preserves the time and energy that you put in to acquiring it accumulating it because this fixed supply of 21 million has more energy and compute expanding underneath it so while dollars uh in quantity form buy you less over time Bitcoin affords you more over time so time is always that key component here it’s volatility in it’s volatile in space but uh value preservation in time so what’s the amount of time and we can measure it in blocks between your your your jumps between these milestones and so that next milestone you’re getting from 0.01 bitcoin to 0.1 100th to one/10enth these are really great steps and you should be really proud if you get through these these stages so this one how long did it take you and remember these these steps presumably are going to take longer and longer so if you get to later on in your life and you understand okay this point in the future where 0.1 bitcoin buys you a house um you know this amount of time may this might be 10 years 20 years and if you’re later in your life you go okay that’s not a reasonable goal so having that time measurement in blocks allows you to just understand uh where it’s time to not retire but spend what you have and um and provide it to your your generational your your bloodline um saving yes now the interesting thing about this moment this current sort of value of say $8,000 worth of Bitcoin this is when you should start looking at um the layer one let’s write it in red layer one is uh 800800 800 to $8,000 worth of Bitcoin these sorts of quantities you should be considering this one as well layer one that’s where you can justify spending a bit of it to to store it in in a layer one wallet and and the whole process here is I also recommend you know hardware hardware wallet and you’ve got substantial enough amount of Bitcoin to you should probably be running a node at this point but the al the al the most important piece here that final jump that final milestone between 0.1 and one whole bitcoin um but if if you are just working and saving through life to to to make this jump still we don’t know how long this is going to take and and there could be there’s there’s going to be a slippage what if what if by the time that you get to 0.1 and you’ve got $80,000 you know you’ve now got $80,000 and uh and now a Bitcoin is worth $800,000 as to how long it takes to acquire one whole Bitcoin measure it in time and and the 800,000 goal again it’s not about the quantity that you have it’s about what you want to do with it your individual dreams experiences goals targets business that you want to build maybe you want to build a mining farm I don’t know an off-grid community a citadel um there’s all these sorts of directions but if you can get yourself to one whole Bitcoin you’re going to know wealth and I say wealth as in the ability to afford yourself time in life so that you can explore all the passions and creativity and all of the different things that you want to do in life for example I love to travel i I just want to see the world see all different countries cultures experiences food you name it and um it’s going to cost a lot of money so uh I better start educating lots more people and another piece here about this the um the management of that money we’ve gone from layer two because it’s a small amount of Bitcoin so you don’t want to be paying a high fee to okay I’ve now started accumulating a quantity that justifies securing it say in a hardware wallet um or just store it in a you know store the private key or the words in a piece of metal and whatever your your magical security system is once you start own owning a significant quantity of Bitcoin uh maybe distribute it into several different wallets and and it’s not putting all your eggs in one basket but actually putting your eggs in the same basket but in different places so to speak and uh maybe some multi-IG multi-IG let’s write that in which is uh instead of one private key being able to move the Bitcoin because that’s that’s the power of your private key is the ability to move the Bitcoin if anyone has that access to your key they can move your Bitcoin the power of the private key is the information of it its ability to move the Bitcoin so multi- signature setups is essentially having uh two out of three or four or five or however many different uh private keys that are required to uh all agree to move that same bitcoin and that just provides you security whether you have particular locations or some some other setup or using custodians and banks of Bitcoin banks in the future it’s all down to your uh your wants and needs and desires and risk tolerance and trust if if you do choose to trust other people with securing your money that’s your choice um people are all going to be different and the key thing here is measure these milestones in time not in a quantity of dollars even the quantity of Bitcoin itself is not an objective goal it’s how much time these take uh for you to to to make these jumps let’s write this in multi- sig multi- signature multiple different requirements to uh access the same money this isn’t really a particularly uh niche educational video it’s more just an abstract um progressional progressional video as to how you can preserve your time and energy in a quantity of money and allow you to live the best life that you want to live thank you for listening i hope you enjoy and I’ll see you in the next one goodbye
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Youtube VideosDitch the fiat goggles! In this game-changer, I measure money, stocks, houses—all trending to ZERO against Bitcoin’s unit of account. Fiat debt money’s a busted ruler, but ONE thing outshines BTC: efficiency & productivity. Bitcoin mining’s assets fade too, yet it yields BTC—rewarding those who master energy and compute abundance.
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everything trends to zero against Bitcoin except one particular thing What do you think that is well this is going to be the topic of today’s video where we’re going to look at essentially the measurement and quantity of Bitcoin uh to purchase a house stocks fiat currency and the mystery one over here And and basically the reason why this is important is because um right now everyone has their fiat goggles on that you need to remove the dollar measuring stick from your mind because right now that the economy is a bunch of carpenters with a warped measuring stick blaming each other for bad design and uh that that’s the most boiled way to understand all the societal problems of pointing the finger at everything and anyone Um maybe the measuring stick is broken That might be the problem And so what we can look at first is a little interesting insight to there’s a lot of people that made a good amount of money early on with Bitcoin Let’s say they spent early early on they spent a thousand Bitcoin or 100 Bitcoin on buying a property a relatively normal property and they’re happy A house purchase is a necessity if you’re raising a family and you want comfort and ownership I mean the ownership goes back to a government So whether that’s true ownership who knows and basically all these sorts of things where you buy a house for a thousand bitcoin from years ago and then eventually they sell it and go do you know what the one thing I want to hold and benchmark my wealth in is a quantity of bitcoin So they sell it back into bitcoin and now they have only 10% of the original bitcoin in quantity than what they had in the first place And when you benchmark anything to Bitcoin it just continually trends down over time And this is because well Bitcoin is the best performing asset of the decade in reference to stocks So if you compare any stock to Bitcoin it’s going down If you compare any of the other alternative digital assets they’re all going down against Bitcoin And even the top ones like Ethereum and XRP and when I say top ones the the ones that are below Bitcoin they still haven’t made uh new all-time highs against Bitcoin If you look at the Bitcoin to one of these other trading pair uh for for several years and so you get these little hopeful spikes but I’m sorry I don’t there’s no fundamental value And that’s the key thing here If you are new here basically at the hash power academy we teach Bitcoin from the fundamentals first That is going through the energy sector the compute Bitcoin mining aspects and how that produces Bitcoin blocks and issues that full supply of 21 million Bitcoin and that fixed supply unit that absolute scarcity that of engineered money essentially a database of units with a cost to produce These are the most fundamental things as to why Bitcoin is outperforming everyone else because there is continually more energy needed in society There’s continually more computers The difficulty adjustment and network hash rate continually increasing So you got this energy and compute expansion under a planetary scale information system that’s decentralized all around the world Yeah that has true fundamental value And that vertical integration and circular integration with the electrical grids is exactly what we need in society in the 21st century Now so what do you think is the one thing and the one thing only on a Bitcoin unit of account that outperforms Bitcoin which is relevant to today and going into tomorrow what do you think it is well you can hold Bitcoin over time and that is your ownership of a quantity of timeless monetary units or you can accumulate Bitcoin in of itself as a yield Hash power Bitcoin mining is the one thing that can have the potential to outperform Bitcoin if you have efficiency This is most important Efficiency is the name of the game And most importantly even mining machines as the asset itself is trending to zero against Bitcoin But Bitcoin miners are the only ones that can produce Bitcoin So when you combine the asset with the yield you have the potential to outperform Bitcoin over time But you need to understand that mining is an accumulation a yield production of Bitcoin And over time that does diminish So this isn’t a guarantee You need efficiency and good access to power And I do believe that in the future the individual the individual opportunity to mine Bitcoin is going to be at that local level where people vertically integrate their ability to produce their own power run even old mining machines if they have no quote unquote running cost of power if they’ve already purchased the upfront um solar or wind or what whatever it is and those mining machines producing heat for their property locally and that connection to the internet Even if you want to live in the middle of nowhere off-rid I’m sure you want an internet connection or not It’s all up to you This the whole point about Bitcoin is there’s optionality and choice You could just hold Bitcoin and do not not participate in any of this You could run your own nodes store your own blocks You want to be the the the determinator of your own destiny Uh you want some right access that is to produce some compute run a computer and that computer creating heat to keep your house warm And that final piece to integrate all six pieces is to produce your own energy And when people are vertically integrated from energy uh from watts to sats so to speak I believe that is the path where even if the economics of mining were to collapse we’re all we’re all able to produce our own energy produce our own money and trade and transact globally And the best part of this is you could just remove the whole Bitcoin part entirely and go “Oh uh there’s a solar storm The magnet magnetic poles have flipped I don’t care what crazy event that you apply at it.” If you’ve got your own living space where you produce your own energy and can produce your own heat and yes you were connected to money you remove the Bitcoin part and you’re you’re still self sustaining and you have access to goods services resources that you can trade with each other That’s going a bit off the deep end but basically Bitcoin mining is essentially that opportunity to accumulate a greater quantity of Bitcoin over time and with efficiency you can outperform Bitcoin that is the only true fundamental uh intrinsic source to outperform Bitcoin That the participants that add value to the network add more hash rate and energy into the system those are going to be the people that are rewarded with the most Bitcoin because as we all trade and transact Bitcoin we’re paying fees and those fees are being distributed to these people in the network And so essentially Bitcoin over time is this continual redistribution system of you want to trade and transact that information has to be stored somewhere We don’t want one particular person with all the control of that data storage of information money and so it has to be distributed all around the world And that’s why Bitcoin has an energy cost to produce because it forces the decentralization of Bitcoin And so yeah the only thing that can outperform Bitcoin over time and has the potential to be outperform it as a benchmark is to well add energy and compute to the network in an efficient way Thank you for listening I hope you enjoy Um this uh might have been obvious to some people but others might be like “Oh I thought you were going to tell me some random other asset.” No it it’s be efficient be productive and the network rewards you That’s it That is the most timeless quote that you can you can take with you into life If you want more Bitcoin you need to add value to the network Thank you for listening Hope you enjoy Goodbye
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Youtube VideosBitcoin’s not just money—it’s peer to peer ‘electronic’ cash, an energy currency with a twist! In this mind-bending dive, I unpack its electricity exchange rate and “electron elasticity”—how block rewards set the global energy price, while miners’ hardware efficiency dials in the local BTC/kWh. From watts to wealth, see how Bitcoin rewires economics with arbitrage and abundance. Watch now—discover why BTC’s the ultimate power play!
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hello there and welcome to the hash power academy my name is Jake Scanland i’m the lead educator here at the academy and this is a place for you to learn anything and everything to do with Bitcoin from its fundamentals of energy computing and also the financial aspects of Bitcoin its blockchain and the context of its dollarized price we teach those components last but the overall gist of this video is to fundamentally and 100% prove that Bitcoin is an energy currency how and why and what is the dynamics between these well these worlds this physics and finance well we’re going to look at the electron elasticity of Bitcoin which if you are a physicist or an economist you have your own understanding of the word elasticity but guess what Bitcoin is the circular integration of these two worlds of energy and finance with well computing and cryptography in the middle and this is the piece that actually defines one side of the pricing system the the production side of how much kilowatt hours you can purchase with one bitcoin because in the early days Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t go into a platform and click buy and exchange dollars into Bitcoin did he in fact every single bitcoin has been produced through a quantity of kilowatts kilowatts to Bitcoin is the original exchange rate of Bitcoin and as more hash rate joins the network it raises the difficulty it raises the electrical cost to produce the bitcoin and every h havinging comes along and cuts the rate in which the bitcoin is distributed per energy cost and so you’ve got this continual repricing over time of more energy chasing fewer sats and that’s its pricing system if you’re holding bitcoin it represents a greater quantity of energy to produce your purchasing power so to speak and so this video is going to absolutely fundamentally prove that Bitcoin is an energy currency and what we’re going to look at is well the difficulty right now is 121.51 trillion that’s the difficulty the bar the bar has been set and this constant I’ll still explain in another video but that just boils down uh and multiplies out the difficulty to what the current average twoe looking back hash rate is for the whole network which is 869 xahash and when you multiply that again by 23 that converts the amount of exahash being produced at an average efficiency of 23 jewels per terraash into 20,000 megawatt now if you add an hour to that that’s obviously 20 million boil it down again kilowatt hours and if we look at the 144 blocks per day of 450 Bitcoin in total for the whole day that approximates six blocks at 18.75 this is because subsidy right now is 3.125 Bitcoin per block multiplied by six and you get your 18.75 now for easy numbers we are going to keep it in dollars but the most key thing as well to take away from this video is we can remove the dollar this is going to be the second commodity on a Bitcoin unit of account the first commodity is Bitcoin per virtual bite the very use of sending Bitcoin and paying a fee to store that information data in a block that is the first Bitcoin unit of account component of the network take a breath the second component is that exchange rate at to electricity how and why well because Bitcoin is mathematically connected to electricity because the miners are consuming a quantity of electricity their energy bill which has a dollarized price and they run it through a computer to produce hash rate and capture some of this Bitcoin and so their output quantity of Bitcoin is still mathematically connected in that chain and that has a dollarized price so yes right now we’re managing all these things in a world of dollar premiums but we can strip the dollar away from both components and have a quantity of energy traded to a quantity of Bitcoin and the takeaway for this video looking at the elasticity is well how does that price change because right now we can do the 1.5 million Bitcoin being earned per hour by the network and the 20 million kilowatt hours being consumed so this is the input cost and this is the output revenue rate of an hour and if we divide 1.5 million divided by 20 million you get 0.075 so 7.5 cent of Bitcoin per kilowatt hour so if a if a miner was mining at the large industrial scale and he was consuming energy to earn 7.5 cent a kilowatt hour if the price on the grid went to 10 cents why why would he mine why would he consume the power if he has the ability to demand response and sell the power back to the grid and so that pricing system is is already halfway there where the miners are halfway there in Bitcoin Bitcoin’s second unit of account commodity of electricity but what we’re going to show you here is so I’ve just shown you the the the current rate of the amount of Bitcoin earned per kilowatt hour what would happen if 10% more hash rate comes online what do you think would happen so we’re going to do plus 10% and that would obviously add an extra 20 uh sorry an extra 2 million kilowatt hours at this current revenue rate just keep scribbling these out and writing them back in what do you think would happen so the amount of Bitcoin being earned by the entire network um would get diminished on the producer side but what happens to the consumer side those holding Bitcoin that now your Bitcoin essentially represents an even greater quantity of energy to be exchanged at that rate but it’s not that rate anymore let’s in fact take the scenario that yes 10% more hash rate has come online well this price would be if I have it written down 10% more hash rate so there’s 20 that’ll be dividing the 1.5 million divided by 22 million that’s a smaller number which is where is it 0.068 0.0.68 so more hash rate chasing the fewer bitcoin which means more energy chasing that fewer bitcoin which means the rate the 0.068 068 means that the the the the amount of Bitcoin that an individual miner is earning per kilowatt hour has dropped which means that the price that the miner is willing to sell on the grid has dropped so let me just uh just shatter that theory that Bitcoin is going to take over the world and consume all energy no because the more hash rate that comes online it makes the energy cheaper for the miners to sell and they want to sell the energy because if the miner switches off even a portion of the machine’s energy use underclocking the machine it lowers the jewels per terahash which is increasing the efficiency which reprices his exchange rate for his remaining hash rate online which is to say that Bitcoin has a dynamic elastic pricing system to electricity and the miner will make more money by selling the power so his his computer justifies the capacity to be able to buy power in a contract because he can he has the ability to use the power to export it onto the internet but he will make more money by selling it p to back to the grid and so yeah if more hash rate comes online more miners plugging in using more of the world’s energy it makes the price of energy for consumers cheaper more abundant shall we say and let’s do it the other way around what happens if 10% of the network comes offline let’s say uh 10% of the network we’re we’re in this future world of Bitcoin’s unit of account economics everyone’s living in citadels and consuming power and sharing that power to each other based on their consumption of mining and that available energy on their local citadel grid well if uh 10% of that energy was sold because it’s consumed in the households and 10% of the hash rate came offline um in a twoe average what do you think the price of energy does then so the the system the the planetary system is being priced as less energy chasing fewer sats well what this does is it raises the price to buy the energy so there’s less of a supply of energy available to buy in the system because hash rate is essentially a representation of energy that’s available to be purchased this is what I’m trying to get out here of Bitcoin as an energy currency 08 3 when I first figured this out as a concept goosebumps blew my mind but yeah so when more hash rate comes online the price of energy for you to have to pay for that energy from miners in our Citadel grids of the future gets cheaper more supply of energy in the system more hash rate means more energy supply versus that that amount of uh the price the pricing system on the consumption side is the amount of subsidy and fees per block because that’s what the miner is comparing he’s comparing how much can I earn by exporting the energy to the internet to earn the Bitcoin consuming it how much can I earn selling it locally so the the the global price for energy is what Bitcoin sets through block rewards and this defines a price a price that a local person is willing to sell power in abundance and so yeah we’ve got this uh minus 10% so 10% of the network hash rate has switched off it raises the price for energy for you and so you’ve got this elasticity of an energy price of Bitcoin which is not static it’s dynamic and it’s dynamic to how much energy is available in the system represented as network hash rate because hash rate is just a a projection of the energy available in the system let’s do um the final one of saying well what happens if uh loads of fees rush into the uh consumption side people let’s just say it doubles if uh the amount of if the amount of um uh which number should we use 6 to8 let’s just say that this uh doubles this one doubles so it’s 37.5 bitcoin coin so in an hour miners think they have the potential to earn 37.5 Bitcoin which equals 3 million so now we do the 3 million divided by Which one should we do yeah 3 million divided by the 22 million kilowatt hours we’ve just dollarized to keep it easy how much do you think um how much do you think the the kilowatt hour exchange rate will be if more consumption is in the network miners are recognizing that they can earn more well or double so it’s essentially double this price um because I I’ve this figure I’m going to use it to this one in my numbers which is yeah double literally if if uh I’ll keep it simple whatever the hash rate is whatever the energy is underneath that if the block rewards were to double the energy price doubles which basically means you’ve got this interplay between block rewards defining the the the global price for energy and the miner’s local efficiency setting that that exchange rate price based on that global price so the two key components of this are the miner’s local efficiency and the global price and I see places like um Indonesia anywhere that they have um locationbased limitations that I’m sure all the different thousands of islands they have some form of ability to produce power that now there is the potential that if if there was mining machines on all the little islands consuming energy available on the particular islands it doesn’t make any sense to run power lines between all the islands but if they all consume energy at a global rate they have a global they have a global wireless defined price for energy but it’s all u available at the local level and this is the other thing about Bitcoin mining is this computer that has a global price of energy defined and a justified consumer which justifies the buildout of more production because you’ve got this chicken and egg issue it’s like uh anywhere that you want to build out more energy production uh well you need a consumer if you want if you want to spend the millions to build out energy production you need something that consumes the energy a buyer once one this enterprise costs a lot of money produces a lot of energy this one well still costs a lot of money but converts energy into money and so you’ve got this this duopoly of the energy production side where if you want to build out more civilizational infrastructure in your country it has the ability to have two options of to export that energy locally or globally and all of these pieces create this amazing future where well the more hash rate comes online the more uh purchasing power your Bitcoin has and that this is this is beyond the dollar world because as I said at the start that these are mathematically connected so one of the struggles with trying to understand how we price things in bitcoin if if a quantity of bitcoin is already accounted through mathematics and physics and cryptography to a quantity of electricity the pricing system is already naturally there and what this does is well now you’ve got say electricity priced in Bitcoin well now you can delve into accounting carbon credits on a Bitcoin unit of account you could price oil on a Bitcoin unit of account you could price any other derivation of um producing energy because there’s multiple different layers that you can put underneath electricity and other technology components to produce it i think I’m going to stop there it’s probably a bit of a weird and wonderful topic but yeah Bitcoin is an elastic price of energy based on how much hash rate is online because hash rate online being produced by the proof of producing blocks u and the difficulty adjustment the difficulty adjustment essentially represents the purchasing power of your Bitcoin when difficultyy’s going up your your Bitcoin is gaining more kilowatt hour purchasing power but you’ve also got the component of the efficiency of machines is continually um in decline in the sense that these machines are gaining gaining efficiency by consuming less energy to produce more compute so um Moore’s law is not working against you but um essentially that microchips are continually getting more efficient but they al they’re also hitting chip density limits and uh uh that’s going to be an interesting thing in the future but overall yeah less and less Bitcoin every four years but more and more energy so the in a in a couple hundred years one bitcoin will essentially well even to now I I theorize that one bitcoin has the purchasing power of 10,000 years of a single human’s consumption of energy so yes you could essentially retire your bloodline and there is a way to actually mathematically define what that represents thank you for listening i hope you enjoy this video share it to anyone you think would find this of interest um I’m add I’m going to add it to this sheet that I will be sharing on the channel i hope to see you in the next one like subscribe and I’ll see you goodbye
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