Crypto twitter turns Greenpeace’s try and vilify BTC through artwork piece into meme

Greenpeace USA printed an artwork piece known as the “Skull of Satoshi” to depict the “ravenous consumption of fossil fuels” by the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).

The piece includes shadowy coders below a cranium fabricated from laptop {hardware} with a backdrop of assorted industrial buildings associated to power manufacturing.

The Cranium of Satoshi is the most recent in Greenpeace’s now year-long “Change the code” marketing campaign to vilify Bitcoin by portray it as an environmental hazard as a result of consumption of electrical energy in mining.

Greenpeace supposed for the artwork set up to develop into an emblem of the environmental destruction attributable to BTC; nevertheless, the piece appears to have had the alternative influence on the group.

Elevated to meme standing

Proponents of Bitcoin principally appear amused by the piece and are rapidly making it a meme inside the group. Some have even adopted it as their new profile picture.

Crypto Twitter’s evaluation revealed that the {hardware} used within the cranium was severely outdated and principally employed tech that had nothing to do with Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies.

Moreover, the buildings depicted within the piece are Nuclear reactor cooling towers, which emit water vapor and don’t have any hostile influence on the surroundings in comparison with fossil fuels.

Others joked about buying the skull to make use of as ornament of their mining setups.

Change the code

Greenpeace first started crusading towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in 2022 by launching a marketing campaign to “change the code” of Bitcoin to take away its proof-of-work (PoW) validation mechanism.

The marketing campaign’s purpose is to push builders to make Bitcoin a proof-of-stake (PoS) coin as an alternative — like Ethereum, which transitioned from PoW to PoS in 2022.

Bitcoin presently requires astronomical quantities of computing energy to validate blocks on its community as miners have been competing for the BTC rewards for effectively over a decade now. The aggressive nature of mining is a double-edged sword because it will increase the general safety of the blockchain nevertheless it additionally requires an increasing number of power to maintain the system working.

Nevertheless, as a result of rising prices of electrical energy internationally lately, miners are more and more turning to off-grid options — a few of which make use of inexperienced power manufacturing like photo voltaic.