PERSPECTIVES CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT BITCOIN, ENERGY USE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Global perspectives on cryptoasset mining and its environmental impacts César Artiga Meraris López November 2021 Bitcoin mining is not a virtual or invisible enemy of the envi­ronment at all, but rather, it is essentially an unavoidable reality, since it attempts against environmental integrity in all areas and at all levels. The energy consumption of Bitcoin deepens the inequali­ty gap with respect to access to energy as a human right and imposes, again, a rationale of commodification of nature. The burden imposed on the planet by keeping an eminently extractive technology in opera­tion for a precision game where few win and all humanity loses, proves that the path is wrong.