EIA Attack on Bitcoin Miners Brian Morgenstern SLP552
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Brian Morgenstern, Head of Public Policy of Riot Platforms joins me to talk about the latest attack on Bitcoin miners: 

• Is Bitcoin mining a partisan issue? 

• The EIA “Survey”

• Falsehoods on grid stability and emissions

• False Emergency

• What to do about it

Links:

• X: @MorgensternNJ) 

• Thread https://twitter.com/MorgensternNJ/status/1754634147232977246)

• X: @TXblockchain_) 

• Sen. Lummis declares the survey to be) )‘absurd’)

• Joint statement by the Chamber of Digital Commerce & Texas Blockchain Council opposing the survey: Industry Statement on EIA’s Emergency Survey  - Chamber of Digital Commerce) )(digitalchamber.org))

Sponsors:

• Swan.com) (code LIVERA)

• CoinKite.com) (code LIVERA)

• Mempool.space)

Stephan Livera links:

• Follow me on X: @stephanlivera)

• Subscribe to the podcast)

• Subscribe to Substack)

Timestamps/Chapters:

• 00:00 - Introduction and Background

• 02:26 - Is Bitcoin Support Partisan?

• 06:35 - The EIA Request for Information on Bitcoin Mining

• 13:18 - Motivations and Political Divide

• 18:42 - "Emergency" Collection of Data

• 20:14 - Swan.com

• 21:26 - Mempool.space

• 22:35 - Coinkite.com

• 23:52 - Competitive Information and Disclosure

• 31:50 - Potential Misinterpretation and Attacks

• 39:04 - Pushing Back and Taking Action

• 41:24 - The Importance of Speaking Up

• 42:16 - Closing Thoughts