The Canadian artist, the creator of the Greenpeace online installation “Satoshi’s Skull”, said that he was wrong about the PoW consensus and did not set himself the goal of fighting the mining of the first cryptocurrency at all.

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

“It was an optimistic hope that someday Bitcoin could move away from the unnecessary burning of fossil fuels without losing all the other features that make it safe, reliable and decentralized,” Wong wrote.

The artist explained that all his life he has been actively fighting for the environment and reducing emissions of hazardous waste. Therefore, bitcoin mining was for him a classic problem between the protection of nature and man-made pollution. After talking with experts in the crypto industry, Wong, he said, realized the promise of Bitcoin blockchain technology and believes that potentially BTC mining “could become more environmentally friendly” without the need to change the algorithm.

Following the backlash from the crypto community to represent Greenpeace USA on Special Projects, Rolf Skar stated that the intent of the art object “does not necessarily imply that Bitcoin should switch to some existing form of PoS.”

“We point to the fact that other crypto projects have realized that PoW has an energy problem. And have changed. Bitcoin is lagging behind and sticking to decade-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 action in the United States “Change the code, not the climate.” As a symbol of hazardous emissions, Greenpeace presented the installation of Benjamin von Wong “Satoshi’s Skull”.