Harald Rauter
Since discovering Bitcoin in 2016, Harald Rauter is focusing on developing the investment case for Bitcoin as a mechanism for achieving superior economic- and environmental returns. Harald Rauter advises ESG-sensitive capital pools like foundations, HNWI and enterprises in developing tailored investment strategies that leverage Bitcoin’s unlocking potential for higher risk-adjusted returns while simultaneously achieving unrivaled CO2e emission reduction. For the past 10 years he has been an investor and portfolio manager for climate-positive investments both in the public- as well the private sector. Harald Rauter holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from ETH Zürich and a masters degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics.
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The age of hydrocarbons has been a remarkable success story of humanity. It provided the cheap and abundant energy that has literally powered the growth and development of global civilization as we know it. By now, however, the negative environmental consequences ultimately culminating in climate change are too material to ignore. How to decarbonize the global economy without jeopardizing wealth and prosperity is the wicked global challenge that nobody seems to find answers to. We have witnessed the disastrous consequences and costs of top-down interventionism by bureaucrats over the past 50 years - achieving neither decarbonization nor wealth preservation nor growth. It leaves people rightfully disenfranchised and revolting. However, a new paradigm offers hope: Bitcoin. Bitcoin happens to have multiple properties that hold the promise of providing the long-term climate-positive outcomes, all while achieving growth and prosperity through investment, the forces of the free market and human ingenuity. Bitcoin is the Plan B for our Planet A.