Canadian investment firm plans to plant trees matching buys in Bitcoin ETF
The investment firm filed the application for its Bitcoin ETF with Canadian securities regulators in February. Accelerate Financial Technologies is planning to match each investment in its pending Bitcoin exchange-traded fund with the planting of thousands of trees.According to a Friday report from Bloomberg, the Calgary-based investment services company has pledged to plant 3,450 trees for every $1 million CAD — roughly $792,000 at the time of publication — invested in its Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, or ETF. The move is part of Accelerate’s aim to have its Bitcoin ETF be carbon....
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Calgary-based Accelerate Financial Technologies prepares to launch a Carbon-Negative Bitcoin ETF (TSX: ABTC). It plans to match each investment by planting trees to counteract the adverse environmental impact of crypto mining. “Accelerate intends to sequester over 100% of the estimated carbon dioxide emissions attributable to bitcoin transactions that ABTC is indirectly exposed to by funding decarbonization initiatives including its global tree-planting program” the company states on its website. Related Reading | $425bn Wiped Off Crypto Market As Musk Says Bitcoin Is Bad....
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The Galaxy phone maker will lead a tree-planting initiative in Madagascar and track it using distributed ledger technology. Samsung Electronics America announced Monday at the CES Tech Conference in Las Vegas its partnership with veritree, a blockchain-based climate solutions platform, to plant two million mangrove trees in Madagascar over the next three months. veritree uses blockchain technology to manage the reforestation process and verify each tree that is planted.The tree-planting initiative is part of Samsung’s nature-based action plan on environmental sustainability, specifically....