From the toilet to the blockchain. A BTC mining facility in Slovakia uses human and animal waste to generate electricity for mining. (Reporting via JoeNakamoto)
Next time someone tries to poo-poo the renewable credentials of Bitcoin mining, remember AmityAge Mining Farm. Founded by Gabriel Kozak and Dušan Matuska, the Bitcoin mining facility uses human and animal waste to generate electricity for mining.,” told Cointelegraph that “Methane from biodegradation processes runs our machines.” As human and animal waste isn’t running out any time soon, the facility’s BTC mining process is both environmentally friendly and renewable.
An ecologically sound and low-cost way of generating electricity, biogas electricity plants convert waste into methane gas due to a fermentation process. The gas is then burned as fuel.Matt Lohstroh, co-founder of Giga Energy — a natural gas Bitcoin miner in Texas — told Cointelegraph that “finding cheap energy [for Bitcoin mining] quickly is the largest issue. All the low-hanging fruit is being plucked away.
Matuska added that “The situation with energy in Europe changed dramatically in November with a huge price increasing together with a conflict around the corner.” As Lohstroh alludes, turning a profit with Bitcoin mining can be tricky, which keeps Matuska both “busy and worried.”“The most exciting part [about Bitcoin mining] is knowing that we are like ‘Bitcoin security guys,’ helping just a little with our hash rate. We are still helping to protect the network.
Matuska added that the overall environmental “footprint is pretty low” for the plant and that one of the excesses is “mostly excessive heat.”If he is looking for ideas for the excessive heat, he need look no further than the creative Bitcoin mining community, which uses the
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