End The FUD

Energy

• “Bitcoin wastes energy”
  • How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume?
  • Three Myths about Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
  • On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
  • Natural gas venting: How Bitcoin solved a 160 year old problem.
  • Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
  • Energy Waste Fallacy
  • Bitcoin Mining and the Case for More Energy
  • The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
  • Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms
  • Common Critiques #4: Bitcoin Wastes Energy
  • The Bitcoin Mining Network: Trends, Average Creation Costs, Electricity Consumption & Sources
  • PoW is Efficient
  • Bitcoin Miners Consume A Reasonable Amount of Energy — And It’s All Worth It
  • Bitcoin Mining Wastes Energy? What If That’s Good?
  • Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
  • FACT CHECK: Is Bitcoin mining environmentally unfriendly?
  • “Bitcoin might exhaust all energy available to people”
    • Energy Exhaustion Fallacy
• “Uses more energy than Visa per transaction”
  • The Bitcoin vs Visa Electricity Consumption Fallacy
  • On Bitcoin, the Gray Lady Embraces Climate Lysenkoism
  • What Bloomberg Gets Wrong About Bitcoin’s Climate Footprint
  • The Frustrating, Maddening, All-Consuming Bitcoin Energy Debate
  • Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of The Petrodollar
  • Carbon Footprint differences: BTC vs Banks
• “Uses dirty, non-renewable energy”
  • Bitcoin Is The First Global Market For Electricity And Will Unleash Renewables
  • Noahbjectivity on Bitcoin Mining
  • Green energy and Bitcoin
  • Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin Can Make the World Greener. Could He Be Right?
  • Beware of Lazy Research: Let’s Talk Electricity Waste & How Bitcoin Mining Can Power A Renewable Energy Renaissance
  • Addressing Concerns About Bitcoin’s Electricity Use
  • How Bitcoin could drive the clean energy revolution
• Bitcoin vs. Gold mining
  • Yellow Rock Bad, Orange Coin Good: Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin
  • Comparing Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact…
  • Is Bitcoin an Environmental Disaster?
  • Bitcoin Emits Less Than 2% of The World’s Military-Industrial Complex Carbon Emissions
• Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption - A shift in perspective

Altcoins

• Why Bitcoin’s Imitators Are Scams
• “Coin X is faster than Bitcoin”
  • It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
  • Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
• “Coin X is more fairly distributed than Bitcoin”
  • See Justice
• Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
• Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
• “Bitcoin is MySpace”
  • Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
  • Analyzing Bitcoin’s Network Effect
  • Ethereum
    • An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
    • Ethereum is Doomed
  • 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
  • Bitcoin Can Be Cloned
• Shitcoin Definition

Justice

• “Bitcon is a Ponzi/pyramid scheme”
  • Bitcoin is not a Pyramid Scheme
  • Bitcoin: Addressing the Ponzi Scheme Characterization
• “Bitcoin is for Criminals”
  • Bitcoin is Not 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

As Money

• “Too Volatile”
  • Bitcoin is Not Too Volatile
  • Misconceptions about Bitcoin
  • Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms
• “Bitcoin is a bad medium-of-exchange”
  • The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
• “No intrinsic value”, “Bitcoin is a bubble”
  • An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets
  • Value Proposition
  • Misconceptions about Bitcoin
  • How we Know Bitcoin is Not a Bubble
  • Subjective Theory of Value
  • Regresssion Fallacy
  • Case Bitcoin: No Intrinsic Value
  • Bitcoin is a Bubble
• “Bitcoin isn’t scalable”, “Can’t process as many payments as Visa”
  • Misconceptions about Bitcoin
• Tether
  • “Bitcoin is Being Pumped by Tether”
  • Don’t Fear Tether

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

PoW vs. PoS

• What’s Wrong with Proof of Stake?
• Proof-of-Stake Fallacy
• Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work
• On Stake and Consensus
• Long Live Proof-of-Work, Long Live Mining
• Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
• Work is Timeless, Stake is Not
• Centralization of Stake in PoS
• Proof of Stake is Still Pointless

Control over Bitcoin

• “Miners control Bitcoin”
  • Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
  • ASIC Monopoly Fallacy
  • Are Chinese Miners a Threat to Bitcoin
  • Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
  • What is Crypto Decentralization and Why Bitcoin Stands Alone
  • Who Controls Bitcoin Core?
• “Satoshi might come back and crash Bitcoin”
• Measuring Decentralization

Governments

• “Governments can ban Bitcoin”
  • Bitcoin Cannot Be Banned
  • Speculative Attack
  • A Most Peaceful Revoluion
  • Misconceptions about Bitcoin
  • Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
  • Common Bitcoin Critiques
  • Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
• “Governments can attack the Bitcoin network”
  • Bitcoin: Fee-Based Security Modeling
  • Bitcoin is Antifragile
• “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”
  • Shelling Out
  • The Bitcoin Standard (chapters 1-3)
  • The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System

Tech

• “Quantum computing breaks Bitcoin”
  • What effects would a scalable Quantum Computer have on Bitcoin?
  • Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them
  • Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
  • Here’s Why Quantum Computing Will Not Break Cryptocurrencies
• “Block rewards will stop in the future and Bitcoin will lose all security”
• “Bitcoin Gets Hacked”

More Reading

Other FUD Rebuttal Collections

• casebitcoin.com - Bitcoin Common Critiques
• Every Reason Bitcoin Will Not Fail
• lopp.net - Misconceptions

Full Guides

• Why Bitcoin
• Getting Started With Bitcoin

Books

• The Bitcoin Standard
• Cryptoeconomics: Book, Wiki
• Thank God for Bitcoin

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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