“Bitcoin mining offers something batteries never can: a scalable way to instantly monetize surplus electricity. Instead of paying to curtail renewable energy, we can turn that excess into digital value. That shift creates true energy abundance while strengthening the grid at the same time.” – Kent Halliburton, CEO of Sazmining Four Challenges of Energy Markets While pondering Bitcoin’s role in energy economics from my last such article, I couldn’t help but notice Bitcoin could be a solution to four novel challenges we’re facing in today’s energy markets: Market volatility from wars — like the European natural gas price spikes in …