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World Economic Forum Shares a Video About Changing Bitcoin’s Code to Proof-of-Stake

According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) tweet, a “change in the way bitcoin is coded could almost eliminate its environmental impact.” That statement stems from a tweet the WEF…

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Bitso to Offset Carbon Emissions From the Trading Platform’s BTC, ETH, ERC20 Transactions

On Friday, the Latin American cryptocurrency platform Bitso announced that the company plans to offset carbon emissions from its bitcoin and ERC20 token transactions carried out on the platform. Bitso…

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US lawmakers sound alarm to EPA over environment concerns of crypto mining

In addition to air and water pollution as a result of energy production, the lawmakers pointed to electronic waste from mining rigs, and noise pollution in surrounding communities.

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Wikimedia community supports proposal to stop foundation from accepting crypto donations

The arguments in favor included environmental concerns surrounding Bitcoin transactions and “the risk to the movement’s reputation for accepting cryptocurrencies."

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Mozilla to Reinstate Crypto Donations — Organization Will Not Accept Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies

During the first week of January, the software community Mozilla revealed it was pausing cryptocurrency donations after citing environmental concerns. 14 weeks later, Mozilla decided last week it will accept…

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls cryptocurrency CO2 emissions a ‘growing concern’

The group said that all technologies — seemingly including crypto — had the potential to enable emissions reductions as well as increased emissions based on how they were governed.

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