What a pitty 😢. We need to orangepill greenpeace.
It is sad that EU regulators and public opinion are listening to #Greenpeace. This should be exposed properly.
If you are a #Bitcoin miner, don’t abandon this propaganda. Help us, end-users and human rights activists to defend bitcoin on the ongoing attack on PoW in the #EU.
One of the goals of the EU bodies, particularly the European Central Bank (#ECB), for such an approach is to use “a policy tool that disincentivises investing in such assets from the outset and prevents the build-up of transition risk through crypto-assets in the banking system” until 2025.
As end-users of Bitcoin for fundraising and payment instruments, Open Dialogue Foundation concerns that such a policy would directly affect both us and the Bitcoin industry, which services we and other activists use. Especially because the European Commission wants to “collaborate internationally with different standardisation bodies to develop the energy-efficiency label” for PoW:
“States shall implement targeted and proportionate measures to lower, and must be ready to stop, the electricity consumption of crypto-asset miners, in line with the proposed Council Regulation on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices.”
We need to do educational advocacy - over 200 face to face meetings with MPs and regulators so they can learn and ask questions from bitcoin miners they never ask in public. Just as we did thanks to nostr:npub1kp7jzme0qs3wcqjjmkq6v5fm359sclhc22glhadgtmerlr0h37nsn8487l nostr:npub1hyqrsvl6hle8r5rc9cpshesm0mpcee75tgde4p5lhke5h83dyqqqdwk7cp and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m last years with #MiCA and #AML Regulations.
We need to be able to defend our rights to use Bitcoin in a legal way. So far it seems that the fight in the EU for Bitcoin is more important for activists than for bitcoiners, because everyone is excited about Bitcoin ETFs in the US, or believes that the market will solve the problem in the EU/move to other jurisdictions, or just doesn't believe in engaging with politicians to educate them. 😔
And I understand and respect all of that arguments, but we as human rights defenders have no place to move and we operate there, in the EU. 🙏
We need your support.
Now, before it is too late. 
Discussion
I guess they have an agenda. But the problem is that there is almost no voices to oppose them from the industry. Just to be vocal in tweets it is not enough. More effective in a long term to educate politicians so all upcoming regulations don’t harm us. We can’t play the game “I don’t care”. Do we want or not, we are going to ask democracies to help us release political prisoners in the authoritarian states. We do so for over 14 years for now. So I want to be able to defend both my activists suffering from repressions and help them use bitcoin without labeling it “environmentally unsustainable” or “threat to financial integrity” in G7 countries.
It is not an abstract issue. We did it with nostr:npub1kp7jzme0qs3wcqjjmkq6v5fm359sclhc22glhadgtmerlr0h37nsn8487l who is literally our angel 👼, patiently attending almost all meetings we organized. But he can’t do all alone. We need faces/testimonials and participation of bitcoin miners in the meetings too in defense of PoW.
💯 we can‘t play the game „I don‘t care“. We lose too much ground on environmentally friendly people who have no clue. Its harder to change their minds later. Its no problem for #bitcoin but a problem for innocent individuals who care about the environment.
Exactly. This is how propaganda /misinformation works. If we don’t work/defend our narrative/position - why and who else is going to defend it?
BITCOIN WILL NEED A COMMITTED ABOVE GROUND CULTURE OF RESISTANCE TO SUPPORT AN INEVITABLE UNDER GROUND RESISTANCE
I don’t want to be underground using #bitcoin. Why #BlackRock should be allowed to trade token of bitcoin and human rights activists would hide in underground ?! No way. We should defend our rights.
Greenwar is a FUD business. Their business model is to generate profits from fear. they have no incentive to be rationale or educated about anything. that would be contrary to their mission.
a good book to check out is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56918041-fake-invisible-catastrophes-and-threats-of-doom written by cofounder of Greenpeace
Greenwar just like AML/CFT laws abused to make this world even more discriminating. The idea and reason to defend environment is important and we need it, but solutions proposed to deal with it brings us to opposite results.
so what do you propose?
I propose:
1) prepare joint submission of bitcoin miners & human rights defenders testimonials. We did the first version of it to ESMA, but honestly there are just a few voices, we need more to be representative:
https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724499,defend-pow-submission-to-esma/
2) to conduct over 200 face-to-cafe meetings before June 2024 with EU politicians and regulators to educate them so they can ask questions they will never ask in public as we did in the past on other regulations: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/723762,btc-coalition-summary-of-works-2022-2023/
3) support our campaign so we have capacity to work on that issue systematically: