A New Mascot 'badass' Emerges From Greenpeace's War Against Bitcoin
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Greenpeace unveils skull of Satoshi' to advocate for Bitcoin
The climate activism group partnered with art activist Benjamin Von Wong for its ongoing “change the code, not the climate” campaign that seeks to convert Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake (PoS) model. Greenpeace unveiled the “Skull of Satoshi” as an 11 feet (3.3 metres) tall skull with the Bitcoin logo and red laser eyes, a well known Bitcoin supporter’s meme.
Greenpeace to market its smoking stacks' skull as mascot for Bitcoin
The recycled electronic waste “smoking stacks” on the top of the skull are presumed to serve as the "fossil fuel and coal pollution" brought about by Bitcoin mining and the "millions of computers" used to validate network transactions. When supporters of Bitcoin expressed their admiration for the art piece. Some of them have already adopted it as a quasi-mascot, here the marketing efforts of Greenpeace took an unexpected twist.
The greenpeace group turns 'Skull of Satoshi' into profile pic for bitcoin miners
The media strategy director at crypto miner Compass Mining called the art piece “badass” and changed his Twitter profile picture to an image of the Skull of Satoshi. The Greenpeace campaign started a year ago with another climate group and Ripple co-founder Chris Larson. It aims to put pressure on bitcoin's main developer miners and it could remove bitcoin from proof-of-work if 30 major institutions agree to the change.