Bitcoin Artwork Criticized By Greenpeace — Bitcoiners Like It
Greenpeace is still trying to change Bitcoin’s code, but people who use Bitcoin don’t take their activism seriously.
Greepeace’s latest marketing stunt against the Bitcoin mining industry seems to have backfired, as people who support Bitcoin seem to like the art that came out of it.
While this is going on, Bitcoiners continue to slam the group for trying to say that the network is bad for the environment and remain committed to its proof of work consensus mechanism.
The Satoshi Skull
In a tweet on Friday, Greenpeace repeated old claims that Bitcoin is causing “dangerously high levels of pollution in the real world” because its “outdated code” encourages people to use fossil fuels.
The activist group’s slogan, “#ChangeTheCode,” called for Bitcoin to switch from proof of work (POW) to proof of stake (POS).
Proof of work is how Bitcoin keeps its blockchain safe. It does this by making network users compete with their computers to solve the next block and earn the rewards that come with it. Proof of stake, on the other hand, has users put their crypto on the line when validating blocks. This uses a lot less energy than proof of work.
The “Skull of Satoshi,” which is part of the tweet, is meant to show how bad this kind of use is. The eleven-foot-tall artwork is made of computer motherboards, smoke stacks, and glowing red eyes like Bitcoin bulls employ on Twitter.
How Bitcoin users feel?
The same bulls, on the other hand, seemed more amused or even impressed than angry.
“Greenpeace accidentally made the most metal bitcoin artwork to date in their misguided anti-PoW campaign,” tweeted Castle Island Ventures co-founder Nic Carter. The well-known essayist has helped argue that the Bitcoin mining industry is good for the environment, not bad.
Others, like @notgrubles, laughed at parts of the art, like the fact that it wasn’t made with a single ASIC machine and that it was made with nuclear cooling towers, which put out clean water vapor.
Some people kept criticizing Greenpeace for taking $5 million from Ripple executives in the first place to say bad things about Bitcoin mining.
Michael Saylor is one of the biggest Bitcoin owners in the world. In September, he said that fears about Bitcoin’s energy use are just “lobbyist propaganda” spread by people who want to sell altcoins. He and the Bitcoin Mining Committee regularly update Bitcoin’s high green energy mix.
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