Greenpeace USA’s Misinformed Environmental Attacks Only Energize And Galvaniz...
Underlying disinformation exposed during Greenpeace USA’s “Change The Code” campaign only served to rally the Bitcoin community.This is an opinion editorial by Daniel Batten, a Bitcoin ESG analyst, climate tech investor, author and environmental campaigner.Growing up in the ’70s, our local council tried to put a rubbish tip into our coastal New Zealand community. The whole community came together — not just to fight a common enemy (and win), but to discover the power of what is possible as part of a grassroots movement, which is impossible alone. In years to come most of that....
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In the wake of 300,000 New York citizens marching the streets alongside 160 other countries against climate change, environmental activist group Greenpeace USA has now partnered with BitPay to begin accepting bitcoin donations. The United States branch is now set to become one the first major international charity organizations to accept bitcoin, making financial protest more available to those that wish to vote with the wallet. CCN. Some may know Greenpeace from the viral video protesting Lego's association with Shell. The stunning video features a Lego-arctic landscape drowning under a....
Just hours after announcing that the Texas-based diversified financial services group USAA has in partnership with Coinbase, launched a pilot that allows a randomly selected, limited group of USAA members to view their bitcoin balance on USAA.com and the USAA mobile app, the Bitcoin wallet and instant exchange company has received an overwhelming number of requests from unselected USAA members. The pilot was initially rolled out to USAA employees in September. NEWSBTC.com has learned that the program will run for approximately 90-days from 11/2/2015 - 1/29/2016. On being asked about the....
Following an initial pilot run which saw select USAA employees and members view their Coinbase accounts via the website and the mobile application, the USAA is now expanding bitcoin integration via Coinbase for all member accounts. In a post yesterday, USAA announced that all account holders will be able to view their Coinbase accounts in tandem with the rest of their USAA accounts and financial services on the USAA website. Support for the mobile application will be available later this month, although both website and the application were a part of the November 2015 trial. Jon Cholak,....
Greenpeace, a non-governmental campaigning organisation focused on environmental issues, announced it would begin accepting bitcoin donations last month, becoming the latest not-for-profit group to embrace the digital currency. The move, which followed a similar announcement by United Way, is especially notable because Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations - it relies largely on small donations from the public. CoinDesk spoke with Greenpeace chief information officer Tom Camerlinck, who explained that there were many "practical things" that motivated the....
Greenpeace USA spoke to Cointelegraph about the organization's perspective on cryptocurrency and recent decision to scrap its Bitcoin donations channel. With the hindsight of today's perspective on Bitcoin's (BTC) exorbitant energy consumption, it might come as something of a surprise to learn that the international non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace was one of its earlier adopters.Back in 2014, the organization set up a facility for accepting Bitcoin donations, yet this enthusiasm has now cooled, as widespread attention has homed in on the climate risks posed by....