04-02-2023, 05:43 AM
One year ago, the organization Greenpeace started a campaign to “Change the Bitcoi
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/128sb0j/one_year_ago_the_organization_greenpeace_started/"> <img src="https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/MAPjECQHKrU6hux2hWF4JRgzp9OIYhsvR90Sp5bK1O8.jpg" alt="One year ago, the organization Greenpeace started a campaign to “Change the Bitcoin code“. One year of stupidity and money waste, instead of actually learning what Bitcoin even is." title="One year ago, the organization Greenpeace started a campaign to “Change the Bitcoin code“. One year of stupidity and money waste, instead of actually learning what Bitcoin even is." /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>About exactly one year ago from today, on the 29th March 2022, a campaign was started by the organization Greenpeace with the title “Change the Code“ and the goal to change the Bitcoin code for the better of the climate, it was inspired by the Ethereum Merger that decreased its energy use by 99.95%. A smiliar code change was requested for Bitcoin now.</p> <p>​</p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/gkxkbfps1bra1.jpg?width=1579&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27da29eaf03f92c27c2a9347d3d2cf7bb466336c">From the official site of the campaign </a></p> <p>On the webiste of the Change the Code campeign you can see an extensive collection of statistics of how Bitcoin uses more energy than Sweded, how Bitcoin mining is responsible for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and that just with the US-based miners. Yeah…that does not seem right at all and you don‘t need to be an expert to know that this is an absurdly high number.</p> <p>​</p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/rvj3admw1bra1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b32034990acc93b439a2e9163cb0421534e0e63">Picture from Pete Rizzo, showing the start of Greenpeace</a></p> <p>The story gets even more interesting as the Ripply Co-founder is behind this campaign and even backed it wth $5M at the start. This alone makes sure that this has nothing to do wih climate but just competition of Ripply agains the rest of Crypto as usual.</p> <p>We may be on side of Ripple for the SEC case but I think even they know that without that lawsuit going on no one would support them as they are against the very basic fundamentals of Crypto, set by Satoshi Nakamoto.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/partymsl"> /u/partymsl </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/128sb0j/one_year_ago_the_organization_greenpeace_started/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/128sb0j/one_year_ago_the_organization_greenpeace_started/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/128sb0j/one_year_ago_the_organization_greenpeace_started/"> <img src="https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/MAPjECQHKrU6hux2hWF4JRgzp9OIYhsvR90Sp5bK1O8.jpg" alt="One year ago, the organization Greenpeace started a campaign to “Change the Bitcoin code“. One year of stupidity and money waste, instead of actually learning what Bitcoin even is." title="One year ago, the organization Greenpeace started a campaign to “Change the Bitcoin code“. One year of stupidity and money waste, instead of actually learning what Bitcoin even is." /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>About exactly one year ago from today, on the 29th March 2022, a campaign was started by the organization Greenpeace with the title “Change the Code“ and the goal to change the Bitcoin code for the better of the climate, it was inspired by the Ethereum Merger that decreased its energy use by 99.95%. A smiliar code change was requested for Bitcoin now.</p> <p>​</p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/gkxkbfps1bra1.jpg?width=1579&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27da29eaf03f92c27c2a9347d3d2cf7bb466336c">From the official site of the campaign </a></p> <p>On the webiste of the Change the Code campeign you can see an extensive collection of statistics of how Bitcoin uses more energy than Sweded, how Bitcoin mining is responsible for 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and that just with the US-based miners. Yeah…that does not seem right at all and you don‘t need to be an expert to know that this is an absurdly high number.</p> <p>​</p> <p><a href="https://preview.redd.it/rvj3admw1bra1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b32034990acc93b439a2e9163cb0421534e0e63">Picture from Pete Rizzo, showing the start of Greenpeace</a></p> <p>The story gets even more interesting as the Ripply Co-founder is behind this campaign and even backed it wth $5M at the start. This alone makes sure that this has nothing to do wih climate but just competition of Ripply agains the rest of Crypto as usual.</p> <p>We may be on side of Ripple for the SEC case but I think even they know that without that lawsuit going on no one would support them as they are against the very basic fundamentals of Crypto, set by Satoshi Nakamoto.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/partymsl"> /u/partymsl </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/128sb0j/one_year_ago_the_organization_greenpeace_started/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/128sb0j/one_year_ago_the_organization_greenpeace_started/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>