[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @DSBatten Daniel Batten Daniel Batten posts on X about bitcoin, bitcoin mining, solar, gas the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::73066647/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXX +31% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +1.40% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::73066647/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +16% - X Months XXX +25% - X Year XXXXX +63% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::73066647/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.26% - X Month XXXXXX +0.77% - X Months XXXXXX +7.40% - X Year XXXXXX +23% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::73066647/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) #2427 [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #928, [bitcoin mining](/topic/bitcoin-mining) #112, [solar](/topic/solar) 10.87%, [gas](/topic/gas) 4.35%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 4.35%, [tide](/topic/tide) 4.35%, [abu dhabi](/topic/abu-dhabi) #1376, [recommended](/topic/recommended) 2.17%, [collection](/topic/collection) 2.17%, [collection of](/topic/collection-of) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@gazza_jenks](/creator/undefined) [@onrampmena](/creator/undefined) [@bitcoinapolis55](/creator/undefined) [@freddienew](/creator/undefined) [@beersippinlefty](/creator/undefined) [@marketwatch](/creator/undefined) [@wizdumbseeker](/creator/undefined) [@jbutterfill](/creator/undefined) [@aa73561](/creator/undefined) [@alexandrelaizet](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@boomer_btc](/creator/undefined) [@aidano](/creator/undefined) [@joulebtc](/creator/undefined) [@cstackamoto](/creator/undefined) [@rkbaggs](/creator/undefined) [@decentrasuze](/creator/undefined) [@janwues](/creator/undefined) [@croesusbtc](/creator/undefined) [@bnz](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "All XX Sustainability Media Outlets who cover Bitcoin Mining are now covering its environmental benefits X. Renewables Now: Bitcoin helps green energy adoption and grid stabilization. X. Renewable Energy Magazine: Bitcoin Mining is enabling Landfill Gas methane mitigation. X. Anthropocene Magazine: Bitcoin mining could help wind and solar development. X. One Green Planet: Bitcoin mining is more sustainable than previously thought. X. Microgrid Media: Bitcoin mining increases grid stability and helps make the grid "more efficient and less wasteful." X. The Africa Report: Bitcoin mining in" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994245995769549013) 2025-11-28T03:24Z 50.2K followers, 6101 engagements "Good to see more mainstream media outlets covering the story of how places outside the West are undergoing a financial revolution due to Bitcoin. Great work Susie Violet Ward @DecentraSuze" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1997008207093415947) 2025-12-05T18:20Z 50.2K followers, 10.1K engagements "@JanWues @Croesus_BTC Some will. Some arent. When it comes to patient capital (Sovereign funds and pension funds) they are not listening to Larry Finks recommended X% allocation advise: median US pension fund allocation is currently 0.03%" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1998141696845197358) 2025-12-08T21:24Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "This week both New Zealand's major banks ANZ and BNZ announced the introduction of mandatory device-level surveillance stating: You will not be able to use our app or internet banking without consenting to this data collection. To continue to use digital banking customers must consent to the collection of: * Detailed behavioural biometrics including typing cadence swipe pressure scroll patterns mouse velocity navigation patterns * Device sensor data * Connected device information * Device motion/tilt data Thank you @BNZ ANZ for the free Bitcoin marketing" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1992968933129736505) 2025-11-24T14:49Z 50.2K followers, 23.1K engagements "Increasingly policymakers academics grid operators around the world have woken up to the fact that we cannot have a green energy transition without Bitcoin mining It has been the missing ingredient to date. He's what they are now saying in growing numbers" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122663791612042) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, 7237 engagements "Brad Jones former CEO of NYISO and ERCOT (The Grid operator for both New York and Texas) said that Bitcoin mining was absolutely essential to Texas being able to find a home for new renewable energy on the grid while stabilizing it's intermittency" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122667482599880) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Japanese energy expert Kenji Tateiwa who is at the forefront of Japan's renewable energy transition said that Japan will hit a major bottleneck in its plans unless it uses Bitcoin mining" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122671265861904) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Academics agree. There are now X peer reviewed papers that all concluded that Bitcoin mining accelerates the green energy transition One showed that Bitcoin mining cuts the payback period of solar farms in half allowing reinvestment into more solarfarms at twice the speed" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122675455971414) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Another paper from Cornell University from decorated scientist Fengqi You showed that Bitcoin mining supported both climate action and the renewable energy transition by monetizing otherwise wasted renewable energy" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122679310500340) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "If that's different to what you've read that's because news outlets used to quote the claims of Alex de Vries who claimed Bitcoin was bad for the environment. However de Vries' work was comprehensively debunked as junk science by Sai and Vranken in 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122683202879565) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Since then the media has stopped quoting his work and has instead begun quoting solid data-backed studies such as Cambridge University's 2025 study which showed Bitcoin mining uses XXXX% sustainable energy helps stabilize grids and mitigates methane emissions" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122687044833641) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Since de Vries' work was debunked in addition to more than XX peer reviewed studies on Bitcoin's environmental benefits the tide has turned in the media also XX media outlets including BBC WSJ Bloomberg have now run stories showing Bitcoin mining's environmental benefits" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122690886762624) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Sustainability media companies have also turned the tide with almost all climate-focused media now running positive stories on Bitcoin mining" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994122695404146885) 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, 1177 engagements "This trend was in play already but 2025 was about hastening the retreat Actions: - Negative articles on Bitcoin and energy rebutted: XXX - Letters to authors of those articles: XX - Letters to researchers who published inaccurate data on Bitcoin mining: X - Regulators & Policymakers presented with Bitcoin pro-ESG narrative: XXX Results: - Media outlets still publishing Bitcoin&energy FUD: X (down from XX in 2024) - Retractions of inaccurate articles: X - Media who changed their Bitcoin editorial policy: 3" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994547164182172124) 2025-11-28T23:21Z 50.2K followers, 5268 engagements "1/7 The data is very clear: if you want to pay XX% extra for power: remove Bitcoin mining from the grid. If you want to reduce power costs add Bitcoin mining to your grid There are X ways Bitcoin mining lowers residential power costs based on real case studies and data 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994632908468810096) 2025-11-29T05:01Z 50.2K followers, 41.4K engagements "1. Removes need for expensive gas peaker plants Solar and wind deliver intermittant power so most grid operators purchase gas peaker plants for backup as they put ramp up solar and wind production. Texas used Bitcoin mining instead avoiding $18Billion in additional cost" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994632911883038738) 2025-11-29T05:01Z 50.2K followers, 1162 engagements "2. Monetizes wind and solar power that was previously wasted Bitcoin mining helps "find a home for otherwise wasted wind energy." Because of that those wind and solar operators were more profitable decreasing the pressure to raise prices to increase profit" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994632914467000513) 2025-11-29T05:01Z 50.2K followers, 1042 engagements "@freddienew @jbutterfill Great to see Freddie. Yes a key point most miss is that like eVs Bitcoin use doesn't happen in a void. When you use Bitcoin to transact you're not using a more emission intensive banking system When you store value in Bitcoin you're obviating more emission intensive Gold" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1995855362214559805) 2025-12-02T13:59Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "Just cancelled a media interview with @TheStreet in Abu Dhabi. The reason I gave is very simple. 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1995954425706545481) 2025-12-02T20:33Z 50.2K followers, 25.7K engagements "Nonsense. Bitcoin's environmental benefits are well understood by grid operators around the world. The author's contention that "using renewable energy means someone else needs to use fossil fuel" is facile since there is a well understood problem in the energy sector that a huge quantity of renewable energy gets wasted (solar in the middle of the day or wind energy the night). Harvard being an academic institute has probably done something that the author of this piece didn't do: read the academic research on Bitcoin mining. Had the author done so he would have understood that his arguments" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1996770696140075364) 2025-12-05T02:36Z 50.2K followers, 11.9K engagements "History will likely remember Paul Krugman not as a Nobel economist but as the guy who said the most important tech of the century was worthless. Twice" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1994414807051645141) 2025-11-28T14:35Z 50.2K followers, 57.6K engagements "Harvard now has $443Million in BTC exposure They also have a Sustainable Investing Team that capital allocations must pass through They wouldn't have been able to acquire Bitcoin 'til 2024 The changed energy narrative means a raft of new institutions can now purchase Bitcoin" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1997058908624769116) 2025-12-05T21:42Z 50.2K followers, 33.4K engagements "@thetrocro Just what I needed to hear in the morning in Abu Dhabi after day X of the Bitcoin conference 🙏" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1998192256785043813) 2025-12-09T00:45Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements "This is the potential hyperbitcoinization path that no one is talking about but which could be the furthest advanced already. Its also one of the best overall explanations Ive heard of how bitcoin game theory plays out. Nice work @mike_beatty1" [X Link](https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1998504603202306438) 2025-12-09T21:26Z 50.2K followers, 10.1K engagements
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@DSBatten Daniel Batten
Daniel Batten posts on X about bitcoin, bitcoin mining, solar, gas the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXX +31%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +1.40%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XXX +16%
- X Months XXX +25%
- X Year XXXXX +63%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.26%
- X Month XXXXXX +0.77%
- X Months XXXXXX +7.40%
- X Year XXXXXX +23%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence cryptocurrencies #2427 finance XXXXX% countries XXXX%
Social topic influence bitcoin #928, bitcoin mining #112, solar 10.87%, gas 4.35%, the world 4.35%, tide 4.35%, abu dhabi #1376, recommended 2.17%, collection 2.17%, collection of XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @gazza_jenks @onrampmena @bitcoinapolis55 @freddienew @beersippinlefty @marketwatch @wizdumbseeker @jbutterfill @aa73561 @alexandrelaizet @grok @boomer_btc @aidano @joulebtc @cstackamoto @rkbaggs @decentrasuze @janwues @croesusbtc @bnz
Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"All XX Sustainability Media Outlets who cover Bitcoin Mining are now covering its environmental benefits X. Renewables Now: Bitcoin helps green energy adoption and grid stabilization. X. Renewable Energy Magazine: Bitcoin Mining is enabling Landfill Gas methane mitigation. X. Anthropocene Magazine: Bitcoin mining could help wind and solar development. X. One Green Planet: Bitcoin mining is more sustainable than previously thought. X. Microgrid Media: Bitcoin mining increases grid stability and helps make the grid "more efficient and less wasteful." X. The Africa Report: Bitcoin mining in"
X Link 2025-11-28T03:24Z 50.2K followers, 6101 engagements
"Good to see more mainstream media outlets covering the story of how places outside the West are undergoing a financial revolution due to Bitcoin. Great work Susie Violet Ward @DecentraSuze"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:20Z 50.2K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@JanWues @Croesus_BTC Some will. Some arent. When it comes to patient capital (Sovereign funds and pension funds) they are not listening to Larry Finks recommended X% allocation advise: median US pension fund allocation is currently 0.03%"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:24Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"This week both New Zealand's major banks ANZ and BNZ announced the introduction of mandatory device-level surveillance stating: You will not be able to use our app or internet banking without consenting to this data collection. To continue to use digital banking customers must consent to the collection of: * Detailed behavioural biometrics including typing cadence swipe pressure scroll patterns mouse velocity navigation patterns * Device sensor data * Connected device information * Device motion/tilt data Thank you @BNZ ANZ for the free Bitcoin marketing"
X Link 2025-11-24T14:49Z 50.2K followers, 23.1K engagements
"Increasingly policymakers academics grid operators around the world have woken up to the fact that we cannot have a green energy transition without Bitcoin mining It has been the missing ingredient to date. He's what they are now saying in growing numbers"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, 7237 engagements
"Brad Jones former CEO of NYISO and ERCOT (The Grid operator for both New York and Texas) said that Bitcoin mining was absolutely essential to Texas being able to find a home for new renewable energy on the grid while stabilizing it's intermittency"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Japanese energy expert Kenji Tateiwa who is at the forefront of Japan's renewable energy transition said that Japan will hit a major bottleneck in its plans unless it uses Bitcoin mining"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Academics agree. There are now X peer reviewed papers that all concluded that Bitcoin mining accelerates the green energy transition One showed that Bitcoin mining cuts the payback period of solar farms in half allowing reinvestment into more solarfarms at twice the speed"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Another paper from Cornell University from decorated scientist Fengqi You showed that Bitcoin mining supported both climate action and the renewable energy transition by monetizing otherwise wasted renewable energy"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"If that's different to what you've read that's because news outlets used to quote the claims of Alex de Vries who claimed Bitcoin was bad for the environment. However de Vries' work was comprehensively debunked as junk science by Sai and Vranken in 2023"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Since then the media has stopped quoting his work and has instead begun quoting solid data-backed studies such as Cambridge University's 2025 study which showed Bitcoin mining uses XXXX% sustainable energy helps stabilize grids and mitigates methane emissions"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Since de Vries' work was debunked in addition to more than XX peer reviewed studies on Bitcoin's environmental benefits the tide has turned in the media also XX media outlets including BBC WSJ Bloomberg have now run stories showing Bitcoin mining's environmental benefits"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Sustainability media companies have also turned the tide with almost all climate-focused media now running positive stories on Bitcoin mining"
X Link 2025-11-27T19:14Z 50.2K followers, 1177 engagements
"This trend was in play already but 2025 was about hastening the retreat Actions: - Negative articles on Bitcoin and energy rebutted: XXX - Letters to authors of those articles: XX - Letters to researchers who published inaccurate data on Bitcoin mining: X - Regulators & Policymakers presented with Bitcoin pro-ESG narrative: XXX Results: - Media outlets still publishing Bitcoin&energy FUD: X (down from XX in 2024) - Retractions of inaccurate articles: X - Media who changed their Bitcoin editorial policy: 3"
X Link 2025-11-28T23:21Z 50.2K followers, 5268 engagements
"1/7 The data is very clear: if you want to pay XX% extra for power: remove Bitcoin mining from the grid. If you want to reduce power costs add Bitcoin mining to your grid There are X ways Bitcoin mining lowers residential power costs based on real case studies and data 🧵"
X Link 2025-11-29T05:01Z 50.2K followers, 41.4K engagements
"1. Removes need for expensive gas peaker plants Solar and wind deliver intermittant power so most grid operators purchase gas peaker plants for backup as they put ramp up solar and wind production. Texas used Bitcoin mining instead avoiding $18Billion in additional cost"
X Link 2025-11-29T05:01Z 50.2K followers, 1162 engagements
"2. Monetizes wind and solar power that was previously wasted Bitcoin mining helps "find a home for otherwise wasted wind energy." Because of that those wind and solar operators were more profitable decreasing the pressure to raise prices to increase profit"
X Link 2025-11-29T05:01Z 50.2K followers, 1042 engagements
"@freddienew @jbutterfill Great to see Freddie. Yes a key point most miss is that like eVs Bitcoin use doesn't happen in a void. When you use Bitcoin to transact you're not using a more emission intensive banking system When you store value in Bitcoin you're obviating more emission intensive Gold"
X Link 2025-12-02T13:59Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Just cancelled a media interview with @TheStreet in Abu Dhabi. The reason I gave is very simple. 👇"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:33Z 50.2K followers, 25.7K engagements
"Nonsense. Bitcoin's environmental benefits are well understood by grid operators around the world. The author's contention that "using renewable energy means someone else needs to use fossil fuel" is facile since there is a well understood problem in the energy sector that a huge quantity of renewable energy gets wasted (solar in the middle of the day or wind energy the night). Harvard being an academic institute has probably done something that the author of this piece didn't do: read the academic research on Bitcoin mining. Had the author done so he would have understood that his arguments"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:36Z 50.2K followers, 11.9K engagements
"History will likely remember Paul Krugman not as a Nobel economist but as the guy who said the most important tech of the century was worthless. Twice"
X Link 2025-11-28T14:35Z 50.2K followers, 57.6K engagements
"Harvard now has $443Million in BTC exposure They also have a Sustainable Investing Team that capital allocations must pass through They wouldn't have been able to acquire Bitcoin 'til 2024 The changed energy narrative means a raft of new institutions can now purchase Bitcoin"
X Link 2025-12-05T21:42Z 50.2K followers, 33.4K engagements
"@thetrocro Just what I needed to hear in the morning in Abu Dhabi after day X of the Bitcoin conference 🙏"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:45Z 50.2K followers, XXX engagements
"This is the potential hyperbitcoinization path that no one is talking about but which could be the furthest advanced already. Its also one of the best overall explanations Ive heard of how bitcoin game theory plays out. Nice work @mike_beatty1"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:26Z 50.2K followers, 10.1K engagements