Bitcoin Mining Council: A 'Green' Advance for BTC or a Trojan Horse for Centralization?

The community had extremely mixed reactions to Michael Saylor and Elon Musk’s new initiative.

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The community had extremely mixed reactions to Michael Saylor and Elon Musk’s new initiative.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp.

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Yesterday, Michael Saylor and Elon Musk surprised the Bitcoin community when they announced a new "green" mining initiative that would see many of North America’s leading mining operators come together to develop common energy reporting standards as well as advocate for greener mining worldwide.

In this episode, NLW breaks down the community’s response, which ranged from enthusiastic to downright aghast. He discusses why there are such big differences in how people are interpreting the initiative and what their reasons for supporting or questioning it say about Bitcoin as a network.

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Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.