%------------------------------------------------ \begin{frame}{Key Questions} \textbf{What are the long term regional welfare changes that can be expected as Bitcoin mining becomes a coproduct of oil?} \begin{enumerate} \item{How much extra revenue will oil producers receive?} \item{How will levels of drilling change?} \item{How will the location of of drilling change?} \end{enumerate} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Strategy} \begin{itemize} \item{Identify the incentives} \begin{itemize} \item{Microeconomics model of Bitcoin mining} \item{Upstream oil production model} \end{itemize} \pause \item{Find regional variation of the incentives} \begin{itemize} \item{Collect well attribute data} \item{Estimate of gas produced in oil wells} \item{Identify wells that do not have a gas pipeline} \end{itemize} \pause \item{Identify responses of oil producers in each region} \begin{itemize} \item{Estimate response to oil and gas price changes} \item{Econometric estimates at the state-basin level of elasticity of supply} \item{Forecast new wells \& oil production} \end{itemize} \pause \item{\emph{Future Work:} Estimate other welfare changes } \begin{itemize} \item{Engineering based pollution estimates} \item{Local externality counterfactual} \end{itemize} \end{itemize} %\textbf{Results in counterfactual oil production by geologic basin and state, in key metrics.} \end{frame}