Greenpeace vs. Bitcoin
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TL;DR
Greenpeace released a statement/artwork condemning Bitcoin's 'ravenous consumption of fossil fuels,' over the weekend.
The Bitcoin community saw this imagery and embraced it with open arms, many of them using it as their new profile pictures.
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We had this buddy in high school whose nickname was 'board shorts.'
Why? Because he always skated in board shorts (as opposed to jeans), and the cool kids mocked him for it (high school is weird).
...but he leant into it and embraced the moniker.
It was a total power move.
That same thing happened when Greenpeace released a statement/artwork condemning Bitcoin's 'ravenous consumption of fossil fuels,' over the weekend:
The Bitcoin community saw this imagery and embraced it with open arms, many of them using it as their new profile pictures.
Which seems like an obvious outcome in hindsight - and a total oversight from Greenpeace.
It's an 11-foot skull with red eyes, smoking stacks on its head...that's metal as hell! Who isn't going to embrace that?
File this one under: 'didn't need to learn of this, but glad we did.'