{"id":42978,"date":"2021-05-22T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42978"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:34:07","slug":"greenpeace-pauses-bitcoin-donations-over-high-energy-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/greenpeace-pauses-bitcoin-donations-over-high-energy-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace pauses Bitcoin donations over high energy consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A representative of the international environmental organisation Greenpeace told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1aecb2db-8f61-427c-a413-3b929291c8ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Financial Times<\/a> in a comment about the suspension of accepting Bitcoin donations due to the high energy consumption of cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe amount of energy required to run Bitcoin is becoming increasingly evident over time, so this policy no longer seems reasonable,\u201d said a Greenpeace spokesperson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The organisation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20140922005670\/en\/Greenpeace-USA-Accepts-Bitcoin-Donations-BitPay#.VCEBmvldX7x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d<\/a> in 2014. At the time Greenpeace noted the environmental advantages of digital gold in terms of lower transaction costs for processing transactions compared with banks.<\/p>\n<p>On May 13, Tesla announced <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tesla-halts-bitcoin-car-sales-and-roils-the-market\">the suspension of sales of electric vehicles for Bitcoin<\/a> due to concerns about the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining. In this context, Bitcoin&#8217;s price tumbled to $45,700.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on May 21, Elon Musk said that the electricity consumption of Bitcoin mining <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-weighs-in-on-bitcoins-scalability-and-energy-use\">exceeds the figures of some countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study, mining centres located in China will consume more than 296.59 TWh of electricity by 2024 and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chinas-bitcoin-farms-set-to-surpass-the-philippines-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-2024\">will surpass the Philippines in greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A representative of the international environmental organisation Greenpeace told the Financial Times in a comment about the suspension of accepting Bitcoin donations due to the high energy consumption of cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1137,1259],"class_list":["post-42978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ecology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42980,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42978\/revisions\/42980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}