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Meet Cathedra, A Promethean Bitcoin Miner Focused On Killing The Petrodollar
nu Bitcoin mining firm Cathedra seeks to propel humanity toward a “positive sum” future in energy production, creativity and more.
Katedra Bitcoin mining containers. Source: CathedraKabijakan pamaréntah dina artos sareng énergi ngadukung kalolobaan ayeuna kakurangan dahareun jeung harga soaring across consumer goods and services, at least according to bitcoin pausahaan pertambangan Cathedra Bitcoin.
Sedengkeun Bank for International Settlements (BIS), bank sentral bank sentral, nyalahkeun Tingkat inflasi AS 40 taun luhur dina bottlenecks ranté suplai anu disababkeun ku pandémik, Cathedra parantos netepkeun pandangan alternatif dina na surat taunan panganyarna pikeun shareholders.
"Kami yakin akar panyabab masalah ieu cukup saderhana: artos anu teu séhat sareng infrastruktur énergi anu teu leres," hurup éta.
Énergi Unsound
Cathedra boga pamadegan yén loba nu garis mainstream ayeuna pamikiran dipangaruhan ku a Malthus pendekatan, nu purports yén kamajuan téh "enol jumlah" jeung sumber anu terhingga, kukituna ngarah ahli sarta pamaréntah pikeun Dengdekkeun nguntungkeun pikeun kawijakan anu nangtoskeun tindakan manusa ku naha éta disturbs alam dunya.
Sanajan kitu, dina bitcoin miner subscribes to Prometheanism - kapercayaan yén kamajuan téh "jumlah positif" jeung kréatipitas manusa sarta téhnologi ngamungkinkeun sumberdaya bisa dipake dina cara anyar nu ngajaga alam dunya bari benefiting spésiés manusa. Prometheans evaluate lampah manusa ku kamampuhna pikeun memicu flourishing manusa, garis pamikiran anu nungtun sagala kaputusan bisnis Cathedra urang.
Kelimpahan énergi perlu. Bari sumber énergi béda mawa kauntungan béda jeung tradeoffs kana tabél, rencana cohesive sangkan throughput énergi maksimum nyaéta kabutuhan pikeun bangsa mana wae pikeun mekar. Kawijakan pondok-pandangan anu ngasubsidi renewables intermittent jeung bentuk stabil jepret generasi ngakibatkeun kerawanan énergi jeung waragad énergi nu leuwih luhur, Cathedra outlines dina surat na.
"Ieu mangrupikeun logika dasar tina kabijakan 'net-nol' ieu: ngadamel énérgi langkung mahal ku kituna urang kurang ngagunakeunana," per suratna. Nyatana, para ekonom anu naroskeun ka Bank Sentral Éropa ningali naékna biaya énergi ('greenflation') salaku fitur, sanés bug - akibat anu diperyogikeun tina transisi énergi."
Sanaos unggal manusa peryogi énergi pikeun salamet, naékna biaya énergi sacara asimétri langkung milih jalma-jalma anu maju di masarakat bari ngahukum jalma-jalma anu berpendapatan rendah anu nyéépkeun seueur gaji pikeun kabutuhan dasar. Nu leuwih luhur harga énergi, nu leuwih luhur harga pikeun unggal produk jeung jasa jeung nu leuwih luhur tol dina pertumbuhan ékonomi.
"Rising harga énergi mangrupakeun pajeg regressive on sahenteuna well-off di masarakat," hurup Cathedra urang berbunyi. "Énergi mangrupa input konci pikeun unggal alus sarta jasa lianna dina ékonomi, sarta kana waktu akun pikeun sakabéh kabeungharan dina ékonomi. Sajauh énergi janten langkung mahal, kitu ogé sadayana anu sanés (kalebet sareng khususna tuangeun), ngajantenkeun masarakat langkung miskin.
"Ieu mangrupikeun pendekatan Malthusian pikeun énergi," tambahna. "Énergi 'héjo' anu mahal anu mampuh para elit, sedengkeun massa anu teu dikumbah nanggung biaya naékna éta."
AS parantos nyorong kana sumber énergi anu tiasa dianyari dina pamaréntahan Biden. Nanging, tinimbang ngijinkeun panyesuaian jaringan listrik dina jangka pondok dugi ka sedeng ku ngajaga pembangkit listrik "heubeul", administrasi Présidén Biden parantos milih perobihan lengkep.
Biden ngabolaykeun pipa Keystone XL dina dinten kahijina di kantor ngeunaan kasalempang ngaduruk minyak jeung atah bisa nyieun parobahan iklim parah na harder pikeun ngabalikeun. Pipa éta bakal nyalurkeun 830,000 tong minyak sadinten ti Kanada ka kilang-kilang di Basisir Teluk AS, sareng gerakan éta nyababkeun ngaronjat tegangan antara AS jeung Kanada. Kahariwang Biden ngeunaan parobahan iklim ogé nyababkeun anjeunna janten a perang légal pikeun ngareureuhkeun leases minyak jeung gas anyar.
Usaha AS anu sami parantos lumangsung di tingkat nagara. Sapanjang dua taun katukang, New York ngagaduhan ngalarang fracking sareng nutup pembangkit listrik tenaga nuklir anu nyayogikeun saparapat tina kabutuhan énérgi nagara nalika ningali PLTA. Sanajan kitu, éta maneuver ogé pasamoan lalawanan salaku environmentalists ngajawab Banjir PLTA anu teu bisa dihindari di sababaraha daérah bakal ngakibatkeun émisi karbon. Kamajuan dina sumber énérgi renewable séjén, kawas surya, ogé ngabogaan geus kahalangan.
"Hasilna nyaéta tanaga anu langkung teu dipercaya sareng generasi beban dasar anu kirang, anu pamustunganana naékkeun biaya énergi di sakuliah dewan," saur CEO Cathedra AJ Scalia. Bitcoin majalah, ngarujuk kana subsidi pamaréntah pikeun énergi renewable.
"Dina henteuna insentif pamaréntah ieu, modal sareng pangusaha bakal ngudag usaha anu nyugemakeun kahoyong konsumen asli," tambah anjeunna. "Renewables bakal kapaksa bersaing jeung bentuk sejen tina generasi on merits sorangan, sarta pangusaha énergi renewable kudu ngamekarkeun jangka panjang, nguntungkeun, model bisnis sustainable nu teu ngandelkeun largesse pamaréntah."
Ampir sadaya sumber énergi bakal nampilkeun tantangan lingkungan dina hiji cara atanapi anu sanés. Cathedra ngabela pikeun "éntropi low" pilihan, nu eta nyebutkeun diperlukeun pikeun ngajaga urutan jeung maju ngembangkeun peradaban.
"Carita kamajuan peradaban mangrupikeun salah sahiji umat manusa anu ningkatkeun kamampuan pikeun ngamangpaatkeun sumber énergi anu teratur pisan sareng ku kituna kapasitas urang pikeun ngaleungitkeun éntropi," saur Scalia. "Satengah abad subsidi pamaréntah jeung turunna suku bunga geus steered ibukota nuju tinggi-éntropi renewables, jeopardizing kamampuhan urang pikeun ngawétkeun urutan di mangsa nu bakal datang, kukituna bringing kami ngadeukeutan ka arah kasaimbangan termodinamika (baca: runtuhna peradaban).
“With its immutable monetary policy, Bitcoin preserves the information contained in prices and will allow humanity to flourish through more efficient, decentralized allocation of resources, improving our ability to resist the influence of entropy in the physical world,” he added.
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Standar moneter fiat global ayeuna, dumasar kana perjanjian bilateral antara AS sareng nagara-nagara anu ngahasilkeun minyak dina sistem "petrodollar"., nyokong dollar AS salaku mata uang cadangan dunya ngaliwatan énergi jeung hutang. Sanajan kitu, kawijakan moneter bank sentral panganyarna geus dimimitian rengat yayasan ieu, ceuk Cathedra.
"Satengah abad kabijakan fiskal sareng moneter anu henteu tanggung jawab parantos nyorong hutang séktor daulat sareng swasta ka ambang unsustainability sareng pasar finansial anu rapuh," per surat perusahaan. "Paménta asing anu sakali stabil pikeun perbendaharaan nguap, maksa Fed pikeun ngamimitian monetisasi defisit AS dina tingkat anu ningkat. Pangsa AS tina GDP global ngirangan, sareng peran dolar dina hubungan dagang konci ngirangan. Malahan militér AS anu sakali-perkasa - anu kaunggulan sadaya sistem petrodollar diprediksi - nunjukkeun tanda-tanda degenerasi.
Ka ieu bitcoin panambang, Bitcoin is the answer to fix record-low interest rates, supply chain disruptions and asset price and consumer price inflation.
“We believe the next global monetary system will be built atop Bitcoin - kalayan bitcoin aset jeung Bitcoin the network working together to offer final settlement in a digitally native, fixed-supply reserve currency on politically neutral rails,” the Cathedra letter reads. “Bitcoin uniquely enables this value proposition, and game theory and economic incentives will compel nation-states to take notice amid the collapsing monetary order.”
The company notes that competition to Bitcoin may emerge, promising even more control, which would appeal to Malthusian leaders. However, Cathedra remains “cautiously optimistic” that the U.S. will favor Bitcoin over dystopian technologies like a central bank digital currency (CBDC). However, the U.S. government doesn’t seem to be leaning that way.
Biden ditandatanganan hiji urutan eksekutif (EO) dinten Rebo ngetok "urgent" ngembangkeun hiji Federal Reserve CBDC. The E.O. outlines federal efforts to research and develop specific guidelines for the use of bitcoin, alternative cryptocurrencies and a possible digital dollar as the country seeks to remain at the core of the global financial system.
"AS geus ceding kontrol unipolar, sistem moneter basis dollar; 50 taun kabijakan fiskal sareng moneter anu henteu tanggung jawab parantos ngajantenkeun ieu kapastian, ”Présidén Cathedra sareng COO, Drew Armstrong, nyarios. Bitcoin majalah. “The only choice we have at this point is how to respond. If America wants to extend its economic leadership in a post-Bretton Woods III monetary order, the path of least resistance would be to lean into its dominant position in the Bitcoin industri. ”
A Bitcoin Mining Company Focused On Hyperbitcoinngiringan
“Our macro views on energy and money inform everything we’re doing at Cathedra,” the letter reads. “Chief among them is the belief that sound money and cheap, abundant, highly ordered energy are the fundamental ingredients to human flourishing. Our company mission is to bring both to humanity, and so lead mankind into a new Renaissance — one led by Bitcoin and the energy revolution we believe it will galvanize.”
nu bitcoin panambang rebranded from Fortress Technologies to Cathedra Bitcoin in December to reflect its aspirations in building a “bold, ambitious, long-term” project — in the spirit of history’s gothic cathedrals — with energy and Bitcoin, not “crypto,” at its core.
“Our long-term plan is to vertically integrate to own everything from the energy resource, to the mining data center, to the mining machines hashing inside the data center,” Scalia said. “Once Cathedra is a scaled, low-cost producer of bitcoin and energy, we’ll also be uniquely positioned to deliver a suite of ancillary products and services across the financial and energy sectors as well.”
Another aspect of Cathedra’s long-term play involves off-grid mining, which the company believes will trump the current popular practice of on-grid mining. To help achieve this vision, the miner has begun producing proprietary modular data centers made to function even under harsh environmental conditions, called “Rovers,” to house over 5,000 bitcoin mining machines that Cathedra expects to receive this year.
Armstrong ngawartoskeun Bitcoin majalah that the advantages of off-grid mining relate mostly to the cheap energy costs. The chief executive highlighted how, by leveraging energy that would otherwise go to waste, the miner wouldn’t compete with other customers as in on-grid mining.
“First, by mining off grid, we’re necessarily pursuing sources of energy that are non-rival,” Armstrong said. “Because there’s no other demand for the energy, we’re able to buy it for cheaper than we otherwise would — and in some cases, can even get paid to consume it.”
Pertambangan off-grid ogé ngamungkinkeun Cathedra ngirangan seueur biaya anu aya hubunganana sareng transportasi listrik, pangiriman, sareng distribusi.
"Ahirna, ku ngahijikeun vertikal pikeun ngarancang, ngadamel, sareng ngoperasikeun Rovers kami, kami tiasa ngahapus lapisan margin tambahan sareng ngawujudkeun tabungan di sisi capex ogé," tambah Armstrong. "Nalika urang ngahontal skala, urang bakal nguntungkeun tina diskon volume bahan, daya tawar leuwih gede jeung suppliers, jsb, ngurangan biaya urang pikeun ngahasilkeun unggal Rover".
Cathedra also is dedicated to accumulating bitcoin on its balance sheet. The company said in its letter that it leverages financing opportunities to keep as much of the bitcoin it mines as possible, a long-term vision that it says will produce outsized results as companies with big BTC holdings get a head start in an eventual Bitcoin baku.
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