dsbatten on Nostr: Love this headline because it captures a real shift in the bitcoin mining community. ...
Love this headline because it captures a real shift in the bitcoin mining community.
Gone are the days when bitcoin mining companies tried to apologetically defend themselves.
They are now counterpunching with interest.
This strategy only works because there is now a huge body of peer-reviewed research, independent reports, revisions to old models (Bloomberg Intelligence and Cambridge), and narrative flips from previous antagonists (UN, WEF, Financial Times) now supporting Bitcoin’s environmental merits.
Yes, not just saying “it’s not that bad” like in the past but saying either “it is, or has the realistic potential to be very net-positive for the environment.”
Bitcoin mining companies are simply no longer taking 101-level nonsense from misinformed legacy NGOs, who have made no effort to learn about bitcoin or engage with bitcoin miners, and instead continue to peddle myths that are out-of-date, out-of-evidence and frankly out-of-integrity (funded by Ripple’s chair to run a smear campaign)
GreenpeaceUSA had the chance at the start of this year to review their anti-bitcoin campaign’s (many) mistakes and failures and reach out to the bitcoin community. But have chosen instead to double down on more misinformation, more mistakes, and with it even more loss of credibility with a generation of crypto-native millennials - the very people it should be cultivating as its future base.
We are no longer talking about a difference of opinion, we are talking about a grassroots movement of Bitcoiners who have taken the time to understand the nuances of a technology deeply, and a UUHNWI-funded former grassroots movement called GreenpeaceUSA who has not.
https://decrypt.co/222655/greenpeace-bitcoin-energy-environmental-debate
Gone are the days when bitcoin mining companies tried to apologetically defend themselves.
They are now counterpunching with interest.
This strategy only works because there is now a huge body of peer-reviewed research, independent reports, revisions to old models (Bloomberg Intelligence and Cambridge), and narrative flips from previous antagonists (UN, WEF, Financial Times) now supporting Bitcoin’s environmental merits.
Yes, not just saying “it’s not that bad” like in the past but saying either “it is, or has the realistic potential to be very net-positive for the environment.”
Bitcoin mining companies are simply no longer taking 101-level nonsense from misinformed legacy NGOs, who have made no effort to learn about bitcoin or engage with bitcoin miners, and instead continue to peddle myths that are out-of-date, out-of-evidence and frankly out-of-integrity (funded by Ripple’s chair to run a smear campaign)
GreenpeaceUSA had the chance at the start of this year to review their anti-bitcoin campaign’s (many) mistakes and failures and reach out to the bitcoin community. But have chosen instead to double down on more misinformation, more mistakes, and with it even more loss of credibility with a generation of crypto-native millennials - the very people it should be cultivating as its future base.
We are no longer talking about a difference of opinion, we are talking about a grassroots movement of Bitcoiners who have taken the time to understand the nuances of a technology deeply, and a UUHNWI-funded former grassroots movement called GreenpeaceUSA who has not.
https://decrypt.co/222655/greenpeace-bitcoin-energy-environmental-debate