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Jack Dorsey, Michael Saylor and Bitcoin Community Pen Letter to Environmental Protection Agency To Refute Myths
A group of executives from within the Bitcoin industry has written a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to debunk myths about the environmental dangers of crypto min...
Wikipedia to Stop Accepting Crypto Donations on Environmental, Other Grounds
The decision came in response to a community vote on a proposal to the foundation from contributor Molly White, who goes by the user name GorillaWarfare, argued that accepting donations in cryptocurre...
Understanding the environmental impact of digital collectibles
NFTs have taken pop culture by storm over the past year. On a nearly daily basis, a new celebrity announces their interest in the emerging technology — usually by dropping an NFT collection. From Quen...
FAA delays environmental decision on SpaceX’s Starship launches to May
SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Michael Sheetz | CNBC The Federal Aviation Administration for a fourth time delayed its environmental review of SpaceX’s Starship rocket pr...
Nature’s Vault Offers an Environmental Solution for Gold Mining
Nature’s Vault is launching its website on the 27th of April 2022 to promote its vision of unlocking the value of Natural Capital using preservation instead of exploitation. Nature’s Vault utilizes b...
How Crypto is Contributing to Environmental sustainability in Africa
Coming out of the COVID pandemic, sub-Saharan Africa is defying the odds with an explosive level of economic growth that has been unseen for decades. With more people moving about and more goods needi...
US Congressman to Assess Environmental Impact of Mining Cryptocurrencies
Apr 25, 2022 at 12:30 // News Leading U.S. lawmakers and members of a select community concerned with water, ocean and wildlife want the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining assessed. A total...
Why are US Democratic Lawmakers calling the Environmental Protection Agency for probing crypto operations?
Undoubtedly crypto operations like mining consume a lot of energy while residual produce enormous heat; both possess threats to the environment that many officials take into consideration On Wednesda...
House Democrats ask Environmental Protection Agency for more crypto oversight
In a letter sent Thursday to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a group of US House Democrats called for increased oversight of proof-of-work mining. Legislators asked the agency to investigat...
US Lawmakers Call for More Oversight of Cryptocurrency’s Environmental Impacts – Bitcoin News
Twenty-three U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase oversight of cryptocurrency’s environmental impacts. “We request that the EPA evaluate ‘Proof-of-W...
US Democratic Lawmakers Call on Environmental Protection Agency To Probe Crypto Operations
More than 20 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to probe crypto mining facilities within the United States. On Wednesday, the lawma...
New Report Reveals EU Considered Ban on Bitcoin Citing Environmental Concerns
57 mins ago | 2 mins read News New papers suggest that EU officials are not fans of Bitcoin. The EU seems to ignore the advantages of Bitcoin’s decentralized payment system. Bitcoin’s energy use has b...
US House Democrats Call for Scrutiny on Crypto Mining as Environmental Threat
“We have serious concerns regarding reports that cryptocurrency facilities across the country are polluting communities and are having an outsized contribution to greenhouse gas emissions,” according ...
Stronghold Digital Mining welcomes SEC Environmental Reporting proposal, isn’t it surprising?
Crypto mining company is to agree to what the US SEC proposed regarding the environmental reporting asked from mining firms Several criticisms that the crypto industry faces include a major one that i...
Hoskintoons NFT creator leads the charge for environmental clean-up
For those of you involved within the Cardano ecosystem, it is plausible to assume that you have an underlying love for the man behind the vision itself, Charles Hoskinson. His educated and social appr...
Ripple Co-Founder Donates $5M to Environmental Campaign Against Bitcoin Mining
Chris Larsen – angel investor and co-founder of Ripple – is funding an environmental campaign to change Bitcoin’s code. Using his funds, a consortium of environmental groups will run ads across major ...
Environmental Groups Launch a New Campaign for Bitcoin Low Energy Use – crypto.news
Earlier this week, Some environmental groups came together to launch a campaign that advocates for Bitcoin low energy use. The campaign aims to push for bitcoin’s code change to reduce energy use that...
White House Seeks Public Commentary On Crypto’s Environmental Impact And Energy Use
White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking public comment on the impact of crypto on energy use and the climate. President Joe Biden, in his crypto order, gave the task of...
White House Wants Public Comments on Crypto’s Energy Use and Environmental Impact
In his executive order on crypto issued earlier this month, President Joe Biden tasked the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) with preparing a report on the “potential for di...
New York Bill to Ban Bitcoin Mining Passes Senate Environmental Committee
Members of the New York State Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee voted to continue with legislation that would ban Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) mining operations in the state for a perio...
Court Says Bitcoin Mining Isn’t Illegal But Is Inimical To The Current Environmental Rules ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     A Chinese court has stated that cryptocurrency mining is not illegal. The judge clarified that mining runs contrary to the existing environmental reg...
Peter Singer and SBF Discuss Crypto’s Environmental Impact
The duo had a deep chat about the moral implications of crypto Sam Bankman-Fried is the CEO and Founder of FTX Singer raised concerns over the industry’s energy consumption In a one-on-one conversati...
Environmental sustainability key sticking point in EU MiCA bill
The legal standing of Bitcoin mining in the European Union hinges on the results of a March 14 vote in the European Parliamentary Committee on Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA). A controversial line con...
Peter Singer and SBF Discuss Crypto’s Environmental Impact, Russia-Ukraine, Helping the Unbanked
In a one-on-one discussion during this year’s Camp Ethereal, sponsored by Decrypt, the renowned philosopher Peter Singer spoke with FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on a collection of topic...
Opinion: Dump Buffett as Berkshire’s chairman? That’s exactly what’s wrong with so many shareholder proposals this year
This coming weekend, Warren Buffett hosts his famed annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.66% BRK.B, -1.87% shareholders in Omaha, Neb. The event is expected to draw tens of thousands live an...