Ripple Co-founder: "Change Bitcoin Code" Campaign Is Unrelated to the Company

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen clarified that the "Change Bitcoin Code" campaign initiated by the environmental organization Greenpeace in 2023 (aimed at promoting Bitcoin's transition to a PoS mechanism) is solely funded by him personally and is unrelated to the company. Larsen stated that his original intention was to explore the possibility of Bitcoin facilitating carbon capture technology, but he acknowledged that the campaign did not meet expectations.

Although Ripple recently gifted the Bitcoin community a sculpture of "Satoshi's Skull" (originally a symbol of environmental criticism) as a gesture of reconciliation, CEO Brad Garlinghouse referred to it as an "olive branch," but the community's response was mixed. VanEck's Head of Digital Assets, Matthew Sigel, called for Ripple to formally apologize for funding the anti-Bitcoin campaign, while Ripple CTO David Schwartz rebutted the concerns about XRP centralization. $BTC