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The German Greens have received and accepted the donation of

one million euros in bitcoin

, a cryptocurrency related to money laundering and whose production requires the consumption of huge amounts of energy and not exactly wind power.

The donation has been made known by the Bundestag, to which, according to the Party Financing Law,

all donations over 50,000 euros must be reported.

According to spokesmen for The Greens, this is the highest amount received by the party so far, it comes from a militant owner of a software company in Mecklenburg-Antepomerania.

The money was received in a single tranche and will

be used to finance

the election

campaign

next September.

For the Die Linke (The Left) party it is an immoral donation that the Greens, by accepting it, turn into legal money laundering.

The head of this formation in Mecklenburg-Antepomerania,

Wenke Brüdgman

, has asked the ecologists to be consistent and reject this contribution.

They also urge all formations not to accept donations in cryptocurrencies.

According to Brüdgam the fact that the Greens intend to use that money in their electoral campaign adds mud to the matter.

"It would still be more elegant to use that donation to combat drought or plant trees."

The Greens, who according to the latest Forsa institute polls have surpassed the conservatives in voting intention and placed at the head of the voting intention formation,

do not plan to return their bitcoin.

Beyond the use of this digital asset, the bitcoin network is an insatiable monster of electricity.

It is estimated that the grid

consumes 60.45 terawatt hours

(TWh) for one year, which is a higher electricity cost than in Switzerland.

If the network were a country, it would be the 43rd place of the most energy consuming.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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