Crypto+Sustainability: Cold Wallet, Boiling Earth

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The crypto world has been on fire since early 2020 and so has the world's temperatures. As one index scorches past new records, minting higher highs and higher lows, so too, it seems, does the other. And climate change isn't the only darkening cloud on the environmental and social horizon, yet we barely hear a peep -- nay a call to arms from the crypto community. As Bitcoin crosses its 13th birthday and the industry market cap flirts with 2 trillion dollars, is it justified to ask why the silence? Or, where are the fruits of Bitcoin's "democratization of capital", the distributed technologies that would empower the little guy/gal, the innovation in problems that matter instead of problems of frivolity. We'll pose these questions and attempt to envision a crypto front to matters of impact.