To Bitcoiners re. ESG'ers

Some in our community are strongly distrusting of any ESG narrative or promoter. There is a legitimate fog of war around so many important topics that should cause everyone to question the information they receive from central authorities. However, let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater, or be responsible for any further confusion.

If we consider the deliberately distorted narrative together with the incomprehensible complexity of the ecological systems we are trying to understand and predict, it is clear that NOTHING is certain.

Add to this the knowledge that Bitcoiners obtain from studying Austrian economics, the knowledge that forces a lack of faith in centralised intervention, and full faith in the potential of a sound money free market economy to deliver the solutions we need.

Considering the above, we have every reason to beat every other suggested solution to a pulp, with battle-hardened knowledge. We have everything we need, to know we are right

However — we don’t need to prove it. In fact, proving it lacks usefulness and can even be destructive. Pride is a sin and always causes suffering.

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.” — Dr Wayne W. Dyer

Even though we know Bitcoin’s higher-order effects will bring more benefit to our environment than any other solution imagined, let’s still make Bitcoin as sustainable as possible, because we love our environment that much. I know that cheap energy happens to often be sustainable, but let's not be too proud to admit that we like that too.

There is also a powerful collective meme regarding climate change that has captured the minds of more people than we realise, and it can easily obscure their vision from seeing the truth of Bitcoin’s impact. That ignorance isn’t deserving of missing out on the biggest opportunity in the history of humanity. In fact, we are so passionate because we believe in equality and accessibility. Let’s not punish people with less clear vision than we have by pushing them away with our pride.

The greener Bitcoin becomes, and the more patient Bitcoiners grow, the more we will win over genuinely well-intentioned environmentalists, and it’s a huge community that wants nothing more than to do good — what’s so wrong with that? I’m not talking about the cronies, I’m talking about our brothers and sisters that have desperately latched on to the green ideas because they want to care, they want to feel like they can do something good in a world that’s been wrecked. We can use that, and eventually, they’ll see what we see — no need to rush the process.

There are also massive amounts of funding yet to be unlocked from behind these strange ESG constructs. Imagine we could transform something as misguided as the standard ESG protocol into a mechanism that enables businesses to access the real technology that we believe in. Troy Cross (Twitter @thetrocro) has shared some phenomenal possibilities, check out his conversations with Peter on the What Bitcoin Did podcast.

Once green lovers understand the real benefit of Bitcoin to everything on planet earth, they will fight for it as we do.

We’ll reach mining sustainability sooner than we will reach collective consensus on the truths around one of the most complex and politicised topics of our lifetime. Fighting people over-sensitive topics has never been an effective strategy… being right doesn’t make it any more effective. This is a sensitive topic, and thank god we have people who are emotionally invested in our beautiful planet.

“Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

Can we leave behind our pride, and behave like we are envoys of a more principled era that we can see is on the way. Let’s drop the need to be right, or to show everyone how wrong they’ve been.

Toxic maximalism is a new kind of closed-mindedness. Maximalism is fine. But being abrasive, impatient and intolerant, just creates distance. You should not want to be responsible for anyone who delays their decision to join because you created friction when there could have been connection.

We’re right. Woohoo. We don’t need to prove it.

“Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently … and those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’ will respond.” — The Arcturians

Don’t be so arrogant to think that Bitcoin’s success depends on you. It’s happening whether we like it or not. We benefit from our participation much more than Bitcoin will ever gain from our contribution.

Please, let’s be exemplars of a new golden age. Not just the next version of proud claims to be the most correct, intelligent or in-fashion. I imagine our new world to value tolerance, compassion and patience. What excites me the most about Bitcoiners is that I see a community emerging that values principles. But please let’s not just believe in principles, let’s act in them.

Let’s move onto a Bitcoin standard, and live a life of low time preference. But even more importantly, let’s adopt principles of human action to reflect that we truly comprehend what it means to live in integrity.

Let’s not just believe in the change, or fight for it. LET’S BE IT.