This month, 185 regulators and asset managers from around the world just got more comfortable with Bitcoin Here's why One of their biggest reservations has been ESG, due largely to some (now discredited) early reporting on Bitcoin and energy. So ... This month I ran 1. a session for 165 Financial Regulators, looking to regulate on Bitcoin, and wanting answers re: ESG 2. a session for a group of 20 Commercial bankers, Asset managers & Corporates looking to get Bitcoin exposure, wanting answers re: ESG In each case they got those answers about how Bitcoin ticks an ESG box, but how Bitcoin could become the most important ESG asset of the 21st Century. Why this matters: These were the decision-makers: including divisional heads of compliance, risk, digital asset policy and higher, including directors and deputy-directors of Central Banks. Their comforts with Bitcoin shapes nation-state decisions. What flicked the switch for them? The peer reviewed papers studies of how Bitcoin mining accelerates the green energy transition were of interest, but not game-changers. "Show us the real world evidence of this happening today" they said. This is where @HRF on the human rights side, and @MARA on the environmental side were invaluable. They learned about: 1. @HRF's work promoting financial inclusion of the world's 1.4Billion unbanked and financial equity for those where high inflation and low human financial rights is the norm, and how they'd found this is uniquely solvable through Bitcoin. 2. @MARA as a case study of a Bitcoin mining company who tick all the ESG-boxes and more: CDR reporting, heat capture, methane mitigation, windfarm utilization). Together, HRF and MARA have given us powerful stories to share that is both reassuring and inspiring to the next wave of adopters. Grateful to them both for making my task of educating the world's regulators and heads of asset management firms about Bitcoin a lot easier!(Daniel Batten)