Greenpeace took a $5M donation from Ripple’s co-founder Chris Larson to lobby against Bitcoin

Greenpeace USA and the Environmental Working Group took a $5M donation from Ripple's ex-CEO/co-founder Chris Larson to lobby against/ spread misinformation about Bitcoin and its environmental impact lobbying towards a code change.

The climate groups are pushing for institutions such as Fidelity, BlackRock, Block and PayPal to influence the Bitcoin protocol. The group's objectives are to have these institutions force a change in the consensus model from PoW to PoS.

They recently launched a $1m ad campaign (article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-29/greenpeace-crypto-billionaire-lobby-to-change-bitcoin-s-code) to achieve max attention.

While Bitcoin’s impact on the environment is disputed, I found it very remarkable to see Larson to use Greenpeace and ESG agenda as a way to weaken potential competing projects!