Greenpeace’s “Satoshi Skull” installation was intended to showcase the environmental dangers of Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism, but BTC supporters have embraced it as a new symbol.

Benjamin Von Wong and climate activist group Greenpeace have teamed up as part of the “Change the Code, Not the Climate” campaign, which aims to call on the crypto community to transform the Bitcoin blockchain consensus mechanism into a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) model.

To expose the harmful effects of bitcoin mining on climate change, von Wong created a three-meter “Satoshi Skull” from the waste of the electronic industry, wires, printed circuit boards and element base. The Skull of Satoshi is crowned with smoking factory chimneys as a symbol of carbon fuel consumption and atmospheric pollution. To top it off, von Wong used the popular BTC meme “red laser eyes” to illuminate the eye sockets of the skull.

In an interview with reporters, representatives of Greenpeace and Benjamin von Wong said that they are extremely worries environmental pollution and energy problems associated with bitcoin mining. With their installation, the participants of the action would like to draw the attention of the society to the fact that the production of military-technical cooperation annually generates more than 30,000 tons of electronic waste, and the energy consumption is twice that of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple combined.

Over the next few months, Greenpeace will be showcasing the Skull of Satoshi on a US tour as part of the Bitcoin Climate Transformation Campaign. However, Greenpeace’s marketing efforts took an unexpected turn when supporters of the first cryptocurrency by capitalization expressed admiration for the work of art, and some even began to use it as a new meme and avatar on social networks.

For example, as Will Foxley, director of media strategy at mining company Compass Mining, called the artwork “very cool” and changed his Twitter profile picture to a picture of Satoshi’s skull.

Formerly renowned VC investor Tim Draper spoke at the Paris Blockchain Week ‘2023 (PWD). The speaker ended his speech entitled “Decentralization of Everything” with a song about bitcoin of his own composition.