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SBP is the First Energy Transition Digital Asset

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What We Do

Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol (SBP) is the top solution for aligning Bitcoin investments with the clean energy transition. By introducing Sustainable Bitcoin Certificates (SBCs), SBP ensures that Bitcoin mining supports clean energy and methane mitigation.

SBCs provide institutional investors with transparency, verifiable energy insights, and the ability to drive both financial returns and meaningful climate action.

For accredited investors, find out how you can incorporate Sustainable Digital Investments into your portfolio
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We don’t expect you to trust us. We strive to earn it. By being transparent with our Data. By working closely with leading climate NGOs and sustainability standards. And by partnering with the world’s leading clean energy Bitcoin miners.

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Testimonials

S. Matthew SchultzCleanSpark

"SBC allows investors to add CleanSpark’s renewable energy mining practices to their bitcoin holdings without disrupting bitcoin’s fungibility. A win for miners, a win for investors, and a win for climate change."


S. Matthew Schultz, Executive Chairman

Andrew WebberDigital Power Optimization Logo

"We made more money per unit of computing power than everyone else on the BTC network because we used verified green power. Just like a wind producer gets a REC for selling green power, we get (and sell) an SBC for producing green computing power. Same amount of power use, more revenue. This is going to catch on in a big way."


Andrew Webber, CEO

Crusoe

"Bitcoin is a tremendous technological solution to mitigate methane emissions from flaring. By investing in SBC and adding Crusoe’s methane mitigation to their portfolio, investors can now make their bitcoin holdings not only more sustainable but support a key driver for reducing emissions and combating climate change."


Crusoe Energy

S. Matthew SchultzCleanSpark

"SBC allows investors to add CleanSpark’s renewable energy mining practices to their bitcoin holdings without disrupting bitcoin’s fungibility. A win for miners, a win for investors, and a win for climate change."


S. Matthew Schultz, Executive Chairman

Andrew WebberDigital Power Optimization Logo

"We made more money per unit of computing power than everyone else on the BTC network because we used verified green power. Just like a wind producer gets a REC for selling green power, we get (and sell) an SBC for producing green computing power. Same amount of power use, more revenue. This is going to catch on in a big way."


Andrew Webber, CEO

Crusoe

"Bitcoin is a tremendous technological solution to mitigate methane emissions from flaring. By investing in SBC and adding Crusoe’s methane mitigation to their portfolio, investors can now make their bitcoin holdings not only more sustainable but support a key driver for reducing emissions and combating climate change."


Crusoe Energy

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The SBC

Sustainable Bitcoin Certificates

An environmental solution for bitcoin
  • icon climate positive
    Climate-Positive

    Driving environmental impact and reducing carbon emissions through verifiable and transparent energy consumption practices

  • icon fully fungible
    Fully-fungible

    SBC can be seamlessly traded or exchanged just like any other standardized asset, without losing value or unique characteristics

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    Reach SFDR-9*

    Meaning SBCs align with the strictest EU sustainability standards, ensuring a measurable positive environmental impact.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Why doesn’t Bitcoin change from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS)?

Proof of Work and Proof of Stake are blockchain consensus mechanisms with critical differences. Bitcoin's PoW requires significant energy to establish a physical world connection, ensuring superior security and fairness over PoS, which is less energy-intensive. While shifting Bitcoin from PoW to PoS is technically infeasible, SBP also sees PoW not as a hurdle but as a catalyst for the clean energy transition.


Bitcoin mining is a flexible, location-agnostic, and interruptible buyer of electricity that is highly sensitive to price. This is what gives Bitcoin mining the ability to support grid resilience through demand response, tackle methane emissions, and bring otherwise stranded clean energy to communities. Rather than move to PoS, investors, miners, and environmentalists should harness this technology to accelerate the energy transition.

What are Sustainable Bitcoin Certificates?

The Sustainable Bitcoin Certificate (SBC) is an environmentally friendly commodity tailored for Bitcoin. It is designed to incentivize Bitcoin miners to use verified clean energy while allowing investors to possess BTC in a manner that is verifiably beneficial for the climate, without compromising Bitcoin's fungibility.


SBCs are created only when one of two measured positive environmental impacts occur:

  1. Bitcoin mining with verified clean energy: For every Bitcoin or Satoshi mined with verified clean energy, one SBC or Kyoto is issued, down to 8 decimal places.
  2. Capital is mobilized into renewable energy markets through the purchase and retirement of high-quality EACs or RECs on behalf of the historical energy consumption of the Bitcoin network. The quantity of clean energy purchased is determined by the average energy consumption of the network on a per-bitcoin basis, and this benchmark is developed in collaboration with leading institutions. This approach ensures that we over-invest to address the historical energy consumption of the Bitcoin network, thereby driving it to climate positivity as more miners and investors adopt the protocol.
Is an SBC the same as a Carbon Credit? Renewable Energy Certificate? What’s the difference?

Whereas carbon credits can be issued without proof of a reduction in emissions and whose value is written down to zero once retired, the SBC is a store of value that represents the production of 1 sustainably-mined BTC and is fully data-backed.


The rationale for aligning SBC issuance with the current hash rate is multifaceted. It aligns well with our mission to maintain a transparent, fair, and economically viable market for SBCs.


Connecting Bitcoin Mining to the Clean Energy Markets

By pegging SBC creation to the current hash rate’s energy consumption, we ensure that the price of the SBC matches with the economics of clean energy Bitcoin mining today, creating the first direct point of connection between the Renewable Energy Markets and Bitcoin Mining.


Scarcity and Natural Price Discovery

Our approach contributes to the scarcity of SBCs or ensures they are produced with the exact energy requirements that miners face. This is crucial for organic price discovery, as the cost of generating an SBC will reflect real-time market dynamics. This feature not only adds a layer of economic robustness to the SBC market but also keeps it tightly linked with the ever-evolving Bitcoin network.


By synchronizing the SBC issuance with the current hash rate, we balance fairness for new market participants and establish a stable yet responsive pricing mechanism. This design choice enhances both the market integrity and the long-term viability of the SBC ecosystem.

What are Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs), how do they work, and why does SBP utilize them?

Energy markets use energy attribute certificates (EACs), which are globally-accepted contractual instruments that enable the substantiation and verification of energy generated, delivered, and consumed on a shared energy grid. EACs identify the source and other characteristics of a MWh of electricity that are otherwise indistinguishable once those electrons enter the grid. These MWh are measured with a meter as the electrons leave the point of generation. EACs help to prevent double counting because they allow only one account holder in a tracking system to trade or retire EACs, and when the EAC is retired it can no longer be transferred.

SBP follows Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 2 Guidelines and its use of EACs because this ensures that bitcoin miners are able to make unique and exclusive claims about their clean energy usage. Without the use of EACs, bitcoin miners run the risk of making claims about clean energy use that have been paid for by others, thereby replicating the double-spend problem that Bitcoin sets out to solve.

Bitcoin miners can make clean energy claims without EACs under certain conditions as explained in the SBP Whitepaper.
Why should Bitcoiners support Sustainable Bitcoin Certificates?

The SBC is designed to unlock Bitcoin’s clean energy potential without making any changes to Bitcoin itself, and does not “replace” Bitcoin in any way. The SBC is simply a market-based instrument intended to align two incentives: sustainable bitcoin mining and institutional investments in clean energy.