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Greenpeace has suspended its campaign against bitcoin mining
12.15.2024 Vasily Smirnov
#Mining#Ecology
The environmental organization Greenpeace USA quietly concluded its 'Change the Code' campaign aimed at combating pollution from cryptocurrency mining. This was reported by bitcoin researcher Daniel Button.
According to his observations, eco-defenders had not published new press releases or posts for over six months. The X-account (@cleanupbitcoin) has been inactive since January 2024.
At the same time, no other branch of Greenpeace publicly supported the initiative of the American division.
Button also emphasized that the organization's director, Josh Archer, left Greenpeace USA and joined a new forest protection project called Stand. Other environmental activists like Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and EWG have not posted on social media about bitcoin for over a year.
The author suggested reflecting on the 'lessons learned' and recalling the period of the community's struggle against the 'greens'. He noted May 2021, when Elon Musk published a tweet about 'caring for the environment' in the context of bitcoin, which caused the coin's price to crash to $13,800. At the same time, Alex de Vries published now-debunked comments against mining, while the press spread his erroneous research, noted Button. In March 2022, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen allocated $5 million to Greenpeace USA to launch a campaign against bitcoin. The organization posed three main questions to which it could not provide answers:
Arguments that bitcoin is harmful to the environment due to the reopening of conserved fossil fuel power plants and the use of coal turned out to be incorrect.
The organization's tactics were based on inciting moral outrage against large corporations, which could be shamed into making 'environmental concessions', but it did not work.
Eco-activists underestimated the conviction and strength of bitcoin defenders, who were already 'hardened in battles over years of gaslighting'.
Button also noted that even the creator of the work 'Satoshi's Skull' changed his stance on bitcoin after interacting with environmental defenders in the crypto industry.