Once Bitten! A Bitcoin Podcast.
Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 24 segments
Are you looking to escape your fiat job? $ BTC 83,159 Block Height 961,185 James of Arc joins the show to discuss the importance of physical world infrastructure, the role of Bitcoin accelerators…
Daniel PrinceHostYes
... how well-read you are on these topics because we, we chatted briefly, uh, on a rooftop bar in Singapore when, uh, we were over there for a, uh, a flying visit and, uh, our paths crossed and we, we got into some interesting, very interesting discussions.
So to, to keep it on England then at the moment and, and you're talking about-
Okay
... uh, policies or decisions that, um, yeah, have moved us away from cheap and abundant energy i- in completely the opposite direction and you can probably pinpoint, you know, the move away from coal back in, uh, back in the '80s and then what happened with nuclear here? Like y-
Yeah
Like, what, what do you know a- and what have you learnt, uh, and where are we now and where could we be?
To, to one of my, um, one of my, you know, one of my funny controversial statements to, to say, um, close your ears if you're, you know, sort of easily offended at this point, right? But I, I think there's a, there's a good case to be made that, um, that Greenpeace is the most ne- negative organization that has ever existed.
Um, for example, like more than, worse than Stalin or Mao or someone in terms of the actual impact on the, on the world.
Um, and I think it's a really good example of where good people with good intentions have dramatically bad impact on the entire world, let alone their own, own, own lives.
And like the short version is for the context, right? Is like Greenpeace was probably the main funder and advocate of the anti-nuclear, uh, movement around the entire world that was not very successful in smart places like China, that was extremely successful in places like Germany, where you had a existing nuclear fleet that was effectively, you know, decommissioned and taken out of action.
And the UK is just one of, you know, tens of countries that have had a casualty as part of this, right? It's, it's so counter-intuitive because it's just like the number one way we would've stopped climate change is just having like tons more nuclear by this point.
Like, if we had standardized and industrialized, uh, building nuclear at scale, um, you know, w- we, we could...
It, it's always difficult to know, right? 'Cause like what is the counterfactual to what actually happened? But it's very likely that we could be decades ahead from a penetration of renewable energy, you know, across the, across the world.
And it's like I- I'm just like I'm just very pro-energy abundance, so I'm pro-oil because I care about energy abundance because if you care about poverty in any nation, anywhere in the world, the, like, number one way that you basically make an impact on poverty is...
Well, traditionally it's called increasing GDP per capita, so increasing incomes of the, of the, of the, of the lowest, uh, in society.
But basically the energy is the raw, the biggest raw ingredient of cost into every single thing that those poor people are gonna spend money on.
And so, like our entire anti-energy policy is not just a, you know, in the case of nuclear, a anti-green, you know, uh, uh, damaging to the climate and anti-green, all of this stuff which is counter-intuitive to someone like Greenpeace, but it's also it creates poverty.
And if you look at somewhere like England over the last 20 years, right? I mean, like this is, this is government's own figures, right? It's not the real figures, it's the, the...
even the lies they tell [laughs] is that for the average person, real wages have fallen over 20 years and that's with completely made up inflation figures, right? So even the government is admitting that over the last 20 years in England, the average person has actually got poorer.
And then if you actually isolate that to like ethnically English people, it's even worse.
So, so, so, so yeah, I mean, like, uh, oh God, I mean like, yeah, energy or all the rest of it.
Yes
... how well-read you are on these topics because we, we chatted briefly, uh, on a rooftop bar in Singapore when, uh, we were over there for a, uh, a flying visit and, uh, our paths crossed and we, we got into some interesting, very interesting discussions.
So to, to keep it on England then at the moment and, and you're talking about-
Okay
... uh, policies or decisions that, um, yeah, have moved us away from cheap and abundant energy i- in completely the opposite direction and you can probably pinpoint, you know, the move away from coal back in, uh, back in the '80s and then what happened with nuclear here? Like y-
Yeah
Like, what, what do you know a- and what have you learnt, uh, and where are we now and where could we be?
To, to one of my, um, one of my, you know, one of my funny controversial statements to, to say, um, close your ears if you're, you know, sort of easily offended at this point, right? But I, I think there's a, there's a good case to be made that, um, that Greenpeace is the most ne- negative organization that has ever existed.
Um, for example, like more than, worse than Stalin or Mao or someone in terms of the actual impact on the, on the world.
Um, and I think it's a really good example of where good people with good intentions have dramatically bad impact on the entire world, let alone their own, own, own lives.
And like the short version is for the context, right? Is like Greenpeace was probably the main funder and advocate of the anti-nuclear, uh, movement around the entire world that was not very successful in smart places like China, that was extremely successful in places like Germany, where you had a existing nuclear fleet that was effectively, you know, decommissioned and taken out of action.
And the UK is just one of, you know, tens of countries that have had a casualty as part of this, right? It's, it's so counter-intuitive because it's just like the number one way we would've stopped climate change is just having like tons more nuclear by this point.
Like, if we had standardized and industrialized, uh, building nuclear at scale, um, you know, w- we, we could...
It, it's always difficult to know, right? 'Cause like what is the counterfactual to what actually happened? But it's very likely that we could be decades ahead from a penetration of renewable energy, you know, across the, across the world.
And it's like I- I'm just like I'm just very pro-energy abundance, so I'm pro-oil because I care about energy abundance because if you care about poverty in any nation, anywhere in the world, the, like, number one way that you basically make an impact on poverty is...
Well, traditionally it's called increasing GDP per capita, so increasing incomes of the, of the, of the, of the lowest, uh, in society.
But basically the energy is the raw, the biggest raw ingredient of cost into every single thing that those poor people are gonna spend money on.
And so, like our entire anti-energy policy is not just a, you know, in the case of nuclear, a anti-green, you know, uh, uh, damaging to the climate and anti-green, all of this stuff which is counter-intuitive to someone like Greenpeace, but it's also it creates poverty.
And if you look at somewhere like England over the last 20 years, right? I mean, like this is, this is government's own figures, right? It's not the real figures, it's the, the...
even the lies they tell [laughs] is that for the average person, real wages have fallen over 20 years and that's with completely made up inflation figures, right? So even the government is admitting that over the last 20 years in England, the average person has actually got poorer.
And then if you actually isolate that to like ethnically English people, it's even worse.
So, so, so, so yeah, I mean, like, uh, oh God, I mean like, yeah, energy or all the rest of it.
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