As 2023 begins, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to be a hot subject of controversy due to the considerable attention they have received about their potential negative environmental impacts, including the energy they require and the CO2 emissions they produce.
Fellow and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, Bruce Schneier, discussed decarbonizing cryptocurrencies through taxation in a blog post on January 4, suggesting that it is necessary to force buyers to pay for their environmental harms through crypto taxes.
(By Jordan Major)
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