Daniel Batten ✓

@DSBatten · Costa Rica · joined 10 Sep 2009

Turning waste into power: from landfill gas to human potential. Coach to founders & Bitcoiners. Ex-CEO, exited. Breathwork teacher. https://t.co/3p04UaQoEA

51 204Followers

158Following

11 684Posts total

245.5KViews on collected posts

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Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten3 Sep

How Bitcoin mining reduces power prices for residents, often substantially. The best qualified to comment on this is the grid operator themselves, because they are independents, who see the impact of Bitcoin mining on grids firsthand. Brad Jones, Former CEO of Texas’ grid 3.2K views · 59 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten2 Sep

Little known fact: Bitcoin mining saved Texans a 4% power bill increase - an increase that they'd have been paying for 40 years. How? After Texas' Winter Storm Uri, a number of options were investigated to help stabilize the grid and generation assets. Gas peaker plants, 2.1K views · 87 likes · 12 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten1 Sep

Original article: https://t.co/ju9gNkNEV3 602 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten1 Sep

"Demand from bitcoin miners on these semi-stranded assets is making renewables in Africa economically viable." ~ CNBC Yesterday, I posted on Bitcoin mining lowering power prices for a community in Norway by 20%. But does Bitcoin mining also help lower electricity prices for ht 6.6K views · 131 likes · 24 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten31 Aug

@DSBatten Miners are the buyer of last resort for electricity. This is why you don't want to ban them from your premises. They can absorb costs in ways that AI companies cannot. 653 views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten31 Aug

There's a line in the song Big Yellow Taxi goes "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." In Sept 2024, Norwegian residents found that out the hard way, discovering too late that Bitcoin mining had for years been keeping their power prices 20% lower. When a Bitcoin http 44.3K views · 1.2K likes · 175 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten24 Oct 2025

@DSBatten @MARA I havent heard from De Vries in ages... is he making up new bs somewhere? 9 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten24 Oct 2025

@DSBatten @MARA In fact, the #HeatCore mining system and our integrated application solutions are even ZERO-water consumption. This is exactly the opposite of the stereotype that Bitcoin mining consumes a massive amount of resources. 154 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten23 Oct 2025

Watershed moment: de Vries bogus "swimming pool per transaction" metrics get replaced by @MARA's (real world) water metrics Bitcoin mining operations use 1/3 the water of an average US household https://t.co/ggw9HdTE83

12.2K views · 120 likes · 30 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten15 Oct 2024

Youtube version: https://t.co/9c5rqQMpxH Slidedeck with commentary (you have full permission to use part or all): https://t.co/6sDFRdGpd9 7K views · 67 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten15 Oct 2024

@DSBatten Bitcoin is the ultimate free market macguffin to incentivize 100% renewable/sustainable and cheap energy. #Few 1.3K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Daniel Batten ✓@DSBatten15 Oct 2024

For years, Bitcoin's energy was much maligned. This was based on deeply flawed and now debunked research. Now, the tide has turned in the scientific consensus and the media and I've summarized why both now say Bitcoin has environmental benefits in a plain English talk. https:// 167.5K views · 1K likes · 280 reposts · 62 replies Open on X →

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6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views2 628this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.13%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.79%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 628	924	2.84×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.13%	3.62%	1.42×
Engagement rate	2.79%	1.52%	1.83×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

167.5K15 Oct

1.3K

12.2K23 Oct

15424 Oct

44.3K31 Aug

653

6.6K1 Sep

602

2.1K2 Sep

3.2K3 Sep

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.89%15 Oct

0.87%

1.08%

1.35%23 Oct

1.95%24 Oct

11.11%

3.12%31 Aug

3.06%

2.51%1 Sep

0.00%

4.96%2 Sep

2.42%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes61.3%2 701 in total

Reposts12.3%541 in total

Replies2.6%114 in total

Quotes3.2%141 in total

Bookmarks20.6%907 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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