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Podcast: Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll
Episode: Bitcoin Mining as Critical Energy Infrastructure in Europe
Description: How Bitcoin mining stabilizes European grids while monetizing curtailed renewable energy
In this episode of Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock’n’Roll, co-host Michael Blaschke sits down with Dr. Harald Rauter, Chief Growth Officer at 21Energy and board member of the European Bitcoin & Energy Association, to explore how Bitcoin mining could become critical energy infrastructure in Europe.
Against the backdrop of Europe’s competitiveness and energy crises, Harald explains why 20–40 TWh of curtailed renewable power each year is not just an energy problem but a monetary one. He walks through the economics of stranded electricity, how grid constraints destroy CAPEX an...