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

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

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 published on April 26, with an accompanying video that claims “miners could stake their own bitcoins to verify transactions.” WEF on Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work: A ‘Basic Change in Coding” Could Eliminate ‘Most of the Network’s Energy Demands’ In recent times, there have been a lot of arguments about the energy consumption used by....


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