What People Get Wrong About Bitcoin's Climate Footprint
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This week, Michael Saylor, the MicroStrategy CEO-turned-king of bitcoin treasuries, called upon fellow business executives to avoid the path of financial “serfdom” and outlined a strategy for corporate bitcoin adoption. Nic Carter, the founding partner at Castle Island Ventures, joined to discuss what get people get wrong about bitcoin's climate footprint. Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, came on to talk about Senator Mitt Romney's plan to fight child poverty and the problems he sees with using tax credits to alleviate poverty. Then Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist and Bloomberg Opinion columnist, made the case for going as broad as possible with stimulus checks.
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