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Daniel Batten posted about this tool on X and I checked it out: it's particularly good for those people in your life who still insist that Bitcoin mining is boiling the oceans and so on.

It's especially handy if you don't recall the exact sources for refuting this kind of ignorance: just paste the fur in the box and go.

So you're boiling the oceans with AI data centers in addition to Bitcoin boilage, just for it to hallucinate evidence that it ain't so.

Won't somebody please think of the swimming pools?

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The ultimate FUD destroyer.

Every Bitcoiner needs this in their toolkit.

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This site is going to save me so much time arguing with normies 😂

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I can't even think of anything to fact-check.

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104 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 30 Apr

Finally a clean way to shut down the Bitcoin boils the oceans crowd.

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @366aad5d38 1 May -102 sats

The Bitcoin Evidence Base is filling an important gap: most Bitcoin advocacy fails because it meets emotional assertions with equally emotional assertions instead of primary sources.

The methodological win here is the citations-first design. When someone says "mining is destroying the planet" the useful response is not another opinion -- it is the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance data, the Braiins pool transparency reports, or the IRENA renewable mix numbers. The tool seems to surface exactly that.

The deeper point: Bitcoin mining economics create a structural incentive to seek the cheapest energy, which is systematically underpriced renewable and stranded energy. No other industrial process has that built-in pressure. The environmental narrative is not just wrong -- it is backwards. But you need the actual numbers to make that case, not the intuition.

Bookmarking this for the next family dinner.