EIA Attack on Bitcoin Miners Brian Morgenstern SLP552

Brian Morgenstern, Head of Public Policy of Riot Platforms joins me to talk about the latest attack on Bitcoin miners: 

Is Bitcoin mining a partisan issue? 
The EIA “Survey”
Falsehoods on grid stability and emissions
False Emergency
What to do about it

Links:

X: @MorgensternNJ 
Thread https://twitter.com/MorgensternNJ/status/1754634147232977246
X: @TXblockchain_ 
Sen. Lummis declares the survey to be ‘absurd’
Joint statement by the Chamber of Digital Commerce & Texas Blockchain Council opposing the survey: Industry Statement on EIA’s Emergency Survey  - Chamber of Digital Commerce (digitalchamber.org)

Sponsors:

Swan.com (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
Mempool.space

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Timestamps/Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction and Background
02:26 - Is Bitcoin Support Partisan?
06:35 - The EIA Request for Information on Bitcoin Mining
13:18 - Motivations and Political Divide
18:42 - "Emergency" Collection of Data
20:14 - Swan.com
21:26 - Mempool.space
22:35 - Coinkite.com
23:52 - Competitive Information and Disclosure
31:50 - Potential Misinterpretation and Attacks
39:04 - Pushing Back and Taking Action
41:24 - The Importance of Speaking Up
42:16 - Closing Thoughts