Kitco News, Released on Released on 5/29/23
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Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Strategy, and Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News, discuss the growing importance of Bitcoin as a political campaign issue and its increasing support from both Republicans and Democrats. Lyn also discusses misconceptions regarding energy use of Bitcoin mining. Alden and Makori spoke at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami.
0:00 – Energy and Bitcoin mining
5:48 – Bitcoin’s political support
7:53 – Republicans and Democrats
Lyn Alden is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy. Lyn has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management, with a focus on engineering economics and financial modeling. She worked as an electrical engineer at an aviation facility, and over the course of a decade worked her way up from being an intern to being the lead engineer and running the day-to-day operations and finances of the facility, before retiring early at age 33 with financial independence. Since then, Lyn has been a full-time investor and independent analyst.