Bitcoin Shame Campaign

Welcome to the Tech for Good Live Podcast. We’re back for our second season of 2022 and we’re talking about greenwashing, bitcoin, climate denial, Facebook, and privacy - so the usual shit show. Host Bex is joined by TFGL regular Greg Ashton and Producer Paul. Our special guest this week is Nikki Bell, co-founder of Fundraising Everywhere. Discussed in this episode: Stat of the week Number of adverts banned for ‘greenwashing’ triples in a year - Independent Charity news of the week Bitcoin’s massive energy use faces $5M shame campaign from environmental groups - ARS Technica Tech news of the week New EU law sets up a fight between interoperability and privacy Is the end nigh for end-to-end encryption? - Guardian Facebook drives sceptics towards climate denial - BBC News And there was a "bug" which was promoting misinformation rather than blocking it: ‘Massive ranking failure’ meant Facebook showed users nudity, violence, and Russian misinformation - Independent Nice of the week A Kirby song cover just won a Grammy - The Verge And finally… You can enjoy sushi in VR and there's something called a "butter device"! ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected] We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast! Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast. Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.