Bitcoiners Criticize House Democrats’ Letter to EPA

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Jack Dorsey, Anthony Scaramucci, Michael Saylor, and other high-profile Bitcoiners have cosigned a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging House Democrats’ claims that their cryptocurrency threatens the environment. Peter St Onge, an economist with the Heritage Foundation, voiced agreement with the letter in an interview with The Epoch Times. “Bitcoin is orders of magnitude, probably 100 times cleaner than the legacy financial system,” St Onge said. Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, praised the Bitcoiners’ May 2 letter in a Tweet. “As someone who is pro #bitcoin and cares about the environment, I urge you to read this letter that separates fact from fiction on bitcoin mining’s impact on the environment for U.S. miners,” wrote Suarez, whose city has emerged as a burgeoning tech hub at a time when Silicon Valley’s population is shrinking. ...

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/bitcoiner ... 43123.html