Bitcoin mining is evolving from an energy concern into a geopolitical and industrial advantage, Forbes contributor Roger Huang reports. A growing “heatpunk” movement, led by innovators like Exergy Heat CEO Tyler Stevens, is repurposing mining-generated heat to warm homes, pools, and even towns, turning what critics call waste into value. Stevens estimates that if just 1% of global comfort heating used Bitcoin mining, the network’s computational power could double. Companies such as MintGreen are already proving the model viable: its “Digital Boiler” helps heat Vancouver’s Kitsilano Pool using low-carbon energy, generating enough Bitcoin to offset electricity costs. Huang notes that “countries that encourage Bitcoin mining and heat reuse will have a competitive advantage.” With Jack Dorsey’s Proto challenging Bitmain’s chip dominance, heat-integrated Bitcoin systems could soon underpin both local infrastructure and national energy strategies.
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Palmer Luckey’s story, as told by Jeremy Stern in Tablet, reads like Silicon Valley folklore. The homeschooled tinkerer who invented the Oculus Rift in his parents’ trailer, sold it to Facebook for $2 billion, and was later fired amid political controversy, has reemerged as a defense visionary. His firm, Anduril Industries, now valued at $14 billion, builds autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and AI platforms that power Western defense networks, including in Ukraine. “I’m not a crusader for truth,” Luckey said. “I’m a crusader for vengeance.” Stern situates Luckey in the lineage of Southern California’s Cold War defense boom, bridging the aerospace past with a future of algorithmic warfare. Though haunted by Silicon Valley’s politics, Luckey channels his obsession into rebuilding America’s defense edge, his AI “Lattice” system a digital descendant of the Sun Belt arsenal that once won the Cold War.
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Managers often overlook the economic logic behind coaching, argues Satoshi Pacioli Accounting. Drawing from the Austrian school of economics, the firm reframes opportunity cost, the value of the next-best option forgone, as a practical leadership tool. “As Bitcoiners, we understand opportunity cost intuitively,” the author writes, “every time we spend dollars on a chair, our opportunity cost is the sats we could have purchased.” The essay advises managers to coach employees to think in terms of tradeoffs rather than directives, using three key questions about value, team contribution, and personal tradeoffs. This reflective framework, the author notes, cultivates judgment, ownership, and strategic awareness rather than compliance. Leaders are urged to model this reasoning themselves, turning teams from task executors into autonomous contributors who understand that every “yes” implies a “no” somewhere else.
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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced that its Bitcoin Development Fund has distributed 1 billion Satoshis in new grants to 20 projects strengthening open-source Bitcoin development, privacy, and censorship resistance for those living under authoritarian rule. The foundation said the funding will support initiatives across Asia, Africa, and Latin America that “help dissidents, journalists, nonprofits, and everyday citizens achieve financial sovereignty.” Projects include privacy-focused tools such as Silent Payments, network security research by developer Daniela Brozzoni, and educational efforts like Bitcoin Arusha in Tanzania and BELLE in Lebanon. Others, including Pluto Mining and WantClue, aim to decentralize Bitcoin mining, while Nostr under Autocracy and KernelKind expand censorship-resistant communication. HRF emphasized that these grants advance a “global freedom technology ecosystem.” Since 2020, the fund has distributed $9.6 million in Bitcoin to 319 projects across 62 countries.
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