North America is about to establish a bitcoin miners committee

This morning, Michael Saylor, CEO of North American mining company MicroStrategy, said that he hosted a meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and North American Bitcoin miners. The miners agreed to form a Bitcoin mining committee to improve energy use. transparency and accelerate global sustainable development initiatives. It is reported that North American Bitcoin miners will publish data on renewable energy use.

Executives from eight institutions present at the conference, including executives from Argo Blockchain, Blockcap, Core Scientific, Galaxy Digital, Hive Blockchain, Hut 8 Mining, Marathon Digital Holdings, and others, decided to form an organization to make energy-consuming Disclosures are standardized and seek to meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives.

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Saylor tweeted: "I was delighted to have a meeting between Elon Musk and the leading Bitcoin miners in North America yesterday. The miners have agreed to form a Bitcoin Mining Council to increase transparency of energy use and accelerate global adoption sustainable development plan within the

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Saylor also said the new industry group is committed to pursuing broad environmental, social and corporate governance goals related to bitcoin mining and educating the market on how mining works.

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Elon Musk, who first posted the news, said: "[I] spoke to North American Bitcoin miners. They promised to publish current and planned renewable energy usage and will ask global miners to do the same. Very interesting. future."

At the time of the announcement, the price of Bitcoin appeared to have risen significantly. BTC reached an intraday high of $39,960, reversing earlier losses.

Tesla's decision to stop accepting bitcoin payments due to environmental concerns may have contributed to bitcoin's worst ever drop. From peak to trough, the global digital asset plummeted 54%, eventually hitting lows below $30,000 before recovering. The cryptocurrency community also strongly condemned Musk's use of senior influence to allegedly manipulate currency prices.

While misconceptions about the negative environmental impact of bitcoin mining are nothing new, recent headlines about China’s crackdown on crypto miners due to environmental concerns have weighed on investor sentiment. Several major Chinese bitcoin mining companies have ended operations in the country and relocated to more desirable jurisdictions.

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