The Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC) responded to a letter despatched to the US Environmental Safety Company (EPA) administrator Michael Regan by Democratic legislators final month with a letter of its personal searching for to rectify inaccuracies about Bitcoin (BTC) mining and its environmental impression.
Penned by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, Citadel Island Ventures companion Nic Carter and Darin Feinstein of Core Scientific, the BMC letter, which has over 50 signers, highlights alleged misconceptions within the doc sent to Regan. Particularly, the authors stated that the unique letter, which was signed by Democratic Consultant Jared Huffman and 22 members of Congress, “confuses datacenters with energy era amenities,” amongst different inaccuracies.
Sure members of Congress despatched a letter to the EPA premised on a number of misperceptions about #Bitcoin mining. Now we have authored a response to clear up the confusion, right inaccuracies, and educate the general public.https://t.co/Ks6fh9Cg0Z
— Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) May 2, 2022
The Democrats’ letter urges the EPA to make sure that digital asset miners adjust to the “foundational environmental statutes just like the Clear Air Act or the Clear Water Act” and goes on to air a number of issues associated to cryptocurrency mining, comparable to digital waste and noise air pollution. The BMC letter seizes on eight factors and rebuts them at size.
According to the business group, the unique letter’s assertion that Bitcoin mining amenities throughout the nation are “polluting communities” is inaccurate. In accordance with BMC, Bitcoin mining amenities produce no air pollution, moderately energy producing amenities do. The failure to make that distinction comes up greater than as soon as. The authors additionally debunk what they see as outright misinformation, comparable to “A single Bitcoin transaction may energy the common U.S. family for a month.”
Nonetheless, BMC could have revealed its personal prejudices in its response to the declare that proof-of-stake (PoS) processing is much less energy-intensive. After holding PoS to a number of criticisms, the business group states the next:
“Provided that proof-of-stake and proof-of-work are qualitatively completely different, it’s deceptive to discuss with proof-of-stake as a extra “environment friendly” type of proof-ofwork, because it doesn’t obtain the identical factor.”
The letter additionally factors out that many miners have interaction in high-performance computing, which has many helpful functions past Bitcoin and digital belongings.
BMC is an business affiliation open to all Bitcoin miners. It originated from a gathering of North American Bitcoin miners initiated by Michael Saylor in Could 2021. At present, the group has 44 “advisory members.” It has additionally printed a number of stories on the environmental impression of Bitcoin mining and proof-of-work extra typically. A number of the findings in its stories have been disputed.
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The BMC letter was signed by a number of the crypto business’s most distinguished names and supporters, together with Block Inc.’s Jack Dorsey, Constancy Investments senior vice chairman Tom Jessop, Fordham Regulation Faculty professor Donna Redel, Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein and SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci.
