Quote from: Vod on Today at 04:23:15 PM

Quote from: cryptolauris on Today at 03:51:04 PM

The tree starts to offset CO2 as it starts to grow

This is not true. Ignorance of this simple fact makes me question your education. How much do you know about trees?

Trees produce CO2 as they grow, just like any other living creature. Once they are grown, photosynthesis starts to take in more CO2 than produced. Until that point, around twenty years for most trees being planted, the tree requires more oxygen to grow than the leaves take out of the atmosphere.

The majority of the population seems to have similar knowledge, which is scary. Trees planted in the 1900's are helping; anything planted today will just hasten climate change.

Quote from: cryptolauris on Today at 04:00:52 PM

The purpose of the post was more to understand the demand from bitcoin community and should we implement it as payment method.

?? You chose to use a blockchain - your entire audience is in this community.

Well, there is significant amount of research done to build methodologies for carbon credit certifications, first carbon offsets come in 5 years representing the amount trees absorbed in those first 5 years. When the tree is mature it actually absorbs CO2 very slowly, therefore, forest plantations actually offset more than overgrown tree. And if you are saying that anything planted today will hasten climate change, that's simply not true. Planting trees is not an answer, it's one of the solutions in the complex set of actions we should take. In the end of the day, we offer to park your BTC in stable and environmentally friendly asset, depends on your investment strategy, however, I do believe that it's a great asset to diversify portfolio with.