Greenidge Generation LLC, an upstate New York-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm has reportedly threatened legal activeness over repeated "demonstrably false" claims from local activists.

Greenidge mines BTC at its gas-fired power institute nigh the Seneca Lake in Dresden and the firm has been locked in a long-running battle with activists who allege that the firm's practices are damaging to the local environment.

Activists Yvonne Taylor and Abi Buddington merits that the Greenidge CEO Dale Irwin sent them "threatening" letters in response to their public pushback against the firm. The messages have since been shared publicly and refer to pursuing "all legal remedies bachelor" if the activists go on to "intentionally deceive the public by outright lying most our visitor'due south operations."

Taylor, the co-founder of the Seneca Lake Guardian environmentalist group, has defendant Greenidge of "spewing greenhouse gases and putting millions of gallons of thermal pollution back into the Seneca Lake daily." Buddington has spoken out against the firm on multiple occasions, questioning its regulatory compliance and ecology impacts.

During an interview with Spectrum News i'due south Majuscule This night on Wednesday, Taylor was questioned on the nature of the legal threats. She claims that Greenidge had threatened to sue them if they didn't keep "tranquility" before this calendar month, and suggested that the messages were a office of a scare tactic.

"Despite the fact that this has been extremely destabilizing, I fright for my safety," Taylor told Upper-case letter Tonight:

"I fear for my family unit's rubber. I feel that I am on the side of right and I do accept a Outset Subpoena right to liberty of speech."

Greenidge responded to Taylor'southward claims, arguing that it'due south not pursuing legal action or "preventing anyone from sharing their position." A Greenidge representative told Cointelegraph:

"If you've read the letters they are referring to, you will run into that there was absolutely no threat here. We sent respectful requests seeking an stop to continued imitation public statements, across multiple platforms, regarding Greenidge and our team. We provided a detailed, point-by-point response to the inaccurate claims, as we have done in the past."

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In both of the letters addressed to the activists, Greenidge refutes their claims by sharing its own operational data and environmental and regulatory compliance records.