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‘Mining Your Share:' The Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin With Troy Cross | Part 1

Understanding how holding Bitcoin creates carbon emissions and what is the perfect market adjustment for Bitcoin.

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We are celebrating CoinDesk's 10-year anniversary of reporting on the crypto and bitcoin community this week. So on this episode of “Money Reimagined,” Michael Casey and Sheila Warren dive deep into the world of bitcoin mining and the fight against climate change with environmentalist and bitcoin mining OG Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College and a Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.


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Money Reimagined has been produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “AITA” by Neon Beach.

HOSTS

Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Casey is Chairman of The Decentralized AI Society, former Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk and co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs.

Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna.

Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media.

Casey owns bitcoin.

Michael J. Casey