This episode is sponsored by EY.

Money is changing, both in form and function.

Money Reimagined is about the changing nature of money, digital currencies, and various topics

related to finance, blockchain technology, digital currencies, and various topics related to finance,

blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and more. Michael Casey and Sheila Warren walk us through

the dynamic and evolving nature of the global economy and the implications for businesses, governments,

and individuals as they must adapt to new payment methods and technologies.

Welcome to Money Reimagined.

Hello and welcome to Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren.

Today they're going to continue their conversation with Troy Cross for part two of

episode 127, mining your share, the carbon footprint of Bitcoin. And now Michael Casey.

Now, this is the way the market works. You know, over time in this gradual way by mining,

and because you're sort of like picking up otherwise wasted fuel and so forth,

in a kind of an incremental way you are contributing to managing climate change,

particularly if you follow your philosophical way of balancing these things out.

However, the world faces a much bigger problem than that, right?

And it is that we need actually to really rapidly reduce carbon. And I've always

been fascinated, intrigued by the idea, I suppose, that if we were to get everybody looking at Bitcoin

for what it is and seeing it as a kind of an unstoppable economic system in the same way we look at

weather or conceiving of it as a thing that you cannot shut down and therefore, how do I actually

work with it as opposed to against it?

Then you would drive policy.

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