Energy
“Bitcoin wastes energy”
Bitcoin: Cryptopayments Energy Efficiency (Michel Khazzaka)
How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? (Nic Carter)
Three Myths about Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption (Dominik Stroukal)
On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption (Galaxy Digital Mining)
Natural gas venting: How Bitcoin solved a 160 year old problem. (Upstream DATA)
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy (Parker Lewis)
Energy Waste Fallacy (Eric Voskuil)
Bitcoin Mining and the Case for More Energy (Hodl’n Caulfield & Selene Lindstrom)
The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption (Nic Carter)
Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms (Ria Bhutoria)
Common Critiques #4: Bitcoin Wastes Energy (Case Bitcoin)
The Bitcoin Mining Network: Trends, Average Creation Costs, Electricity Consumption & Sources (Christopher Bendiksen & Samuel Gibbons)
PoW is Efficient (Dan Held)
Bitcoin Miners Consume A Reasonable Amount of Energy — And It’s All Worth It (Marc Bevand)
Bitcoin Mining Wastes Energy? What If That’s Good? (Michael J. Casey)
Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why. (behind registration wall) (Lyn Alden)
Statement before the United States House of Representatives by Brian Brooks (Brian P. Brooks)
“Bitcoin might exhaust all energy available to people”
Energy Exhaustion Fallacy (Eric Voskuil)
“Uses more energy than Visa per transaction”
Bitcoin’s Energy Use Compared to Other Major Industries (Hass McCook)
The Bitcoin vs Visa Electricity Consumption Fallacy (Carlos Domingo)
On Bitcoin, the Gray Lady Embraces Climate Lysenkoism (Nic Carter)
What Bloomberg Gets Wrong About Bitcoin’s Climate Footprint (Nic Carter)
The Frustrating, Maddening, All-Consuming Bitcoin Energy Debate (Nic Carter)
Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of The Petrodollar (Alex Goldstein)
Carbon Footprint differences: BTC vs Banks (Stackmore)
“Uses dirty, non-renewable energy”
Bitcoin is Already Using Clean Energy (Ali Sherief)
ASIC Chip Technology is Renewable Energy’s Future (Phil Geiger)
Bitcoin Is The First Global Market For Electricity And Will Unleash Renewables (Nima Tabatabai)
Noahbjectivity on Bitcoin Mining (Nic Carter)
Green energy and Bitcoin (Knut Svanholm)
Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin Can Make the World Greener. Could He Be Right? (Jen Wieczner)
Beware of Lazy Research: Let’s Talk Electricity Waste & How Bitcoin Mining Can Power A Renewable Energy Renaissance (Christopher Bendiksen)
Addressing Concerns About Bitcoin’s Electricity Use (mBit)
How Bitcoin could drive the clean energy revolution (Peter Van Valkenburgh)
Bitcoin vs. Gold mining
Yellow Rock Bad, Orange Coin Good: Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin (Hass McCook)
Comparing Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact… (Hass McCook)
Is Bitcoin an Environmental Disaster? (Dominic Frisby)
Bitcoin Emits Less Than 2% of The World’s Military-Industrial Complex Carbon Emissions (Hass McCook)
Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption - A shift in perspective (Gigi)
Links to this topic: btcCO2.org btcenergy.org endthefud.org/energy energy.endthefud.org
Justice
“Bitcon is a Ponzi/pyramid scheme”
Bitcoin is not a Pyramid Scheme
Bitcoin: Addressing the Ponzi Scheme Characterization
“Bitcoin is for Criminals”
Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms
Bitcoin Common Critiques #5: Bitcoin is Used by Criminals
“Bitcoin was not fairly distributed”, “Bitcoin increases inequality”
In support of the proof of work [un]fair launch
ASIC Resistance is Nothing but a Blockchain Buzzword
Bitcoin’s Distribution Was Fair
Links to this topic: endthefud.org/justice endthefud.org/ponzi endthefud.org/criminals
Bitcoin as Money
“Too Volatile”
Bitcoin is Not Too Volatile (Parker Lewis)
Misconceptions about Bitcoin (Lyn Alden)
Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms (Ria Bhutoria)
“Bitcoin is a bad medium-of-exchange”
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin (Vijay Boyapati)
“No intrinsic value”, “Bitcoin is a bubble”
Bitcoin’s Fundamental Value is That it is The Most Excellent Money That Exists (Tomer Strolight)
An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets (John Pfeffer)
Value Proposition (Eric Voskuil)
Misconceptions about Bitcoin (Section 1 & 2, Lyn Alden)
How we Know Bitcoin is Not a Bubble (Daniel Krawisz)
Subjective Theory of Value (Wikipedia)
Regresssion Fallacy (Eric Voskuil)
Case Bitcoin: No Intrinsic Value (Case Bitcoin)
Bitcoin is a Bubble (Case Bitcoin)
Bitcoin has no intrinsic value: debunked (Arman the Parman)
“Bitcoin isn’t scalable”, “Can’t process as many payments as Visa”
Misconceptions about Bitcoin (Section 3, Lyn Alden)
“Bitcoin’s price is artificially manipulated”
“Bitcoin is Being Pumped by Tether” (Case Bitcoin)
Don’t Fear Tether (Dan Held)
Bitcoin Futures Market Explained and The Defense Against Bitcoin Price Manipulation (Arman the Parman)
Links to this page: endthefud.org/money
Inflation
“Some inflation is good for the economy”
Bitcoin is The Great Definancialization
Disinflationary money breaks the economy so we cannot adopt Bitcoin
“Without inflation there won’t be enough money for everybody”
Human Action: Inflation and Deflation
The Bitcoin Central Bank’s Perfect Monetary Policy
Links to this topic: endthefud.org/inflation
PoW vs. PoS
What’s Wrong with Proof of Stake? (Bob McElrath)
Proof-of-Stake Fallacy (Eric Voskuil)
Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work (Paul Sztorc)
On Stake and Consensus (Andrew Poelstra)
Proof-of-Stake Is a Defective Mechanism (Vicent Sus)
Long Live Proof-of-Work, Long Live Mining (Paul Sztorc)
Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset (Hugo Nguyen)
Work is Timeless, Stake is Not (Hugo Nguyen)
Centralization of Stake in PoS (Gisele Schout)
Proof of Stake is Still Pointless (Paul Sztorc)
Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma (Lyn Alden)
Links to this topic: endthefud.org/PoW endthefud.org/PoS
Control
“Miners control Bitcoin”
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Are Chinese Miners a Threat to Bitcoin
Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
What is Crypto Decentralization and Why Bitcoin Stands Alone
“Blockstream controls Bitcoin”
Fact or FUD — “BlockStream , Inc is the main force behind Bitcoin (and taken over)”
Decentralization
Links to this topic: endthefud.org/control endthefud.org/miners
Governments
“Governments can ban Bitcoin”
Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin
Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
“Governments can attack the Bitcoin network”
Bitcoin: Fee-Based Security Modeling
“Bitcoin is not backed by anything”
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms
“Bitcoin is mined/controlled by China”
BetterHash: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining With New Hashing Protocols
Common Bitcoin Critiques: China Controls Bitcoin
Are Chinese Miners a Threat to Bitcoin?
“Governments will create their own crypto coin and force it on people”
Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
“Governments decide what counts as money”
The Bitcoin Standard (chapters 1-3)
The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
Links to this topic: endthefud.org/governments endthefud.org/ban endthefud.org/china
Altcoins
“Coin X is faster than Bitcoin”
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
“Coin X is more fairly distributed than Bitcoin”
See Justice
“Bitcoin is MySpace”
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Analyzing Bitcoin’s Network Effect
An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
The Problem with Ethereum: Part 1 & Part 2
Pre-Bitcoin Literature @ Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms
“Bitcoin developers can increase its inflation”
Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
“Bitcoin is not scarce because it can be cloned”
Bitcoin can be forked infinitely which dilutes the value
Why Bitcoin’s Imitators Are Scams
Links to this topic endthefud.org/altcoins
Tech
“Quantum computing breaks Bitcoin”
What effects would a scalable Quantum Computer have on Bitcoin? (Stack Exchange)
Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them (Various)
Quantum Computing and Cryptography (Bruce Schneier)
Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail (safehodl)
Here’s Why Quantum Computing Will Not Break Cryptocurrencies (Robert Huang)
What Quantum Computers Mean for Bitcoin’s Future (Arman The Parman)
Other
“Block rewards will stop in the future and Bitcoin will lose all security” (safehodl)
“Bitcoin Gets Hacked” (casebitcoin)
- Links to this topic: endthefud.org/tech
More Reading
Other FUD Rebuttal Collections
- casebitcoin.com - Bitcoin Common Critiques
- Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
- lopp.net - Misconceptions
Full Guides
Books
- The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
- Cryptoeconomics: Book, Wiki (Eric Voskuil)
- Thank God for Bitcoin
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin (Vijay Boyapati)
- Energy & Climate
- Apocalypse Never - Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Michael Shellenberger)
- False Alarm (Bjorn Lomborg)
- Fossil Future (Alex Epstein)
- Economics
- Human Action (Ludwig von Mises)
- Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
A much more extensive list of Bitcoin books: bitcoin-resources.com.
Writers
- Nic Carter: Medium
- Tomer Strolight: Medium
- Allen Farrington: Medium
- Nik Bhatia: Medium
- Lyn Alden
- Parker Lewis: Blog
- Gigi
- Hugo Nguyen: Medium
- Knut Svanholm: Medium
- Tone Vays
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