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Nick Grossman
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Nick Grossman's personal blog at nickgrossman.xyz covers economics and startups. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Bitcoin as a Battery”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Nick Grossman's essays on Bitcoin as an energy battery and on money as both energy and information, in threads about Bitcoin's electricity use and European cheap energy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. New networks, new markets, and the systems underneath them.
Most-linked posts?
- Bitcoin as a Battery5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-03-21
What Hacker News says?
The counter argument is that Bitcoin is a battery [1] so that if you live in a place like Iceland with plentiful energy, so much that even exporting it as aluminum leaves extra, then you can turn it into Bitcoin and export it that way. But most Bitcoin mining is not that. I feel like Joni Mitchell in the Big Yellow Taxi: "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" [2] Why are we allowing this to happen? (Well, at…
Comment linking /2021/bitcoin-as-battery/
on “Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021”Submitted Bitcoin as a Battery as a story · 147 points
HN discussionI like the idea that money both energy and information, while simultaneously being different things to different people. For Jeff Bezos, money is personal power and prestige, for McKenzie Scott, money is a tool for social good. Money Is Energy: George Mobus Discusses Biophysical Economics and Alternative Theories of Value - https://www.financialsense.com/contributors/george-mobus/bio... Bitcoin as Battery - https://…
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on “The money is the message”Submitted The Butter Thesis (2019) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThey can then build out some unusual kinds of batteries. See, https://nickgrossman.xyz/bitcoin-as-battery Forget about the bitcoin side of it, I wouldn't agree with that, lol. The story about Iceland's aluminum smelters is a real eye opener.
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on “Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy”Submitted Memory as a Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin as Battery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin as Battery as a story · 1 points
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