Can crypto ever be green? Until recently, this was a question that mostly concerned idealists. The crypto kids who dashed into bitcoin a decade ago were so focused on fomenting an anti-establishment financial revolt that they did not usually worry too much about carbon emissions.

The type of mainstream investors who are fretting about environmental, social and governance issues today once avoided digital assets because of other kinds of filth; as a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis shows, fraud and cyber theft continue to plague the ecosystem.

Financial Times