University of Cambridge to launch decentralized carbon credit marketplace on the Tezos blockchain

In an announcement Friday morning, the University of Cambridge announced it would be building a novel decentralized carbon credit marketplace to support global reforestation efforts. Its ultimate goal would be to increase the adoption of nature-based conservation solutions, or NbS, such as reforestation, through financial instruments. The institution envisions that purchasers of carbon credits will […]

Bitcoin energy debate resurfaces with calls for ‘green hackers’ to attack network

The exponential rise in Bitcoin’s price and hash rate is driving critics to once again question the largest blockchain’s energy efficiency — with calls for “green hackers” to band together to mount an attack on the network. Total world production and consumption vs. Bitcoin. Source: CBECI A self styled “developer and ecologist” who goes by […]