Satoshi Skull Creator Benjamin Von Wong Renounces Fight Against Bitcoin

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Canadian artist, creatorGreenpeace online installation “Satoshi’s Skull”, stated that he was wrong about the PoW consensus and did not set himself the goal of fighting the mining of the first cryptocurrency.

Benjamin von Wong stated on Twitter that his art project was never intended to combat BTC mining.

"It was an optimistic hope that"Bitcoin will one day be able to eliminate the unnecessary burning of fossil fuels without losing all the other features that make it safe, secure, and decentralized," Wong wrote.

The piece was never meant to be anti-Bitcoin.
It was an optimistic hope that Bitcoin couldshift away from the needless burning of fossil fuels without losing all the other features that make Bitcoin safe, secure, and decentralized. /3https://t.co/l9SjijMV6h

— Von Wong (@thevonwong) March 25, 2023

The artist explained that he has been activelyfights for the environment and reduction of hazardous waste emissions. Therefore, Bitcoin mining was for him a classic problem between protecting nature and man-made pollution. After talking with crypto industry experts, Wong, according to him, realized the prospects of Bitcoin blockchain technology and believes that potentially mining BTC “could become more environmentally friendly” without the need to change the algorithm.

After a sharp reaction from the crypto communityintroduce Greenpeace USA on special projects Rolf Skar said that the concept of the art piece “does not necessarily imply that Bitcoin should switch to any existing form of PoS.”

"We point out the fact that otherscrypto projects have realized: PoW has an energy problem. And they changed. Bitcoin is lagging behind and sticking to decades-old technology, while other, newer cryptocurrencies use different consensus mechanisms and reduce carbon emissions,” says Rolf Skar.

Since March 23, Greenpeace has been holding an environmental campaign in the United States called “Change the Code, Not the Climate.” As a symbol of hazardous emissions, Greenpeace presented
Benjamin von Wong's installation "Satoshi's Skull".