El Salvador releases ‘sneak peek’ of volcanic Bitcoin mining
The country has proposed geothermal energy generated via volcanoes to power mining farms. Here’s what it could look like.
June 23, 2021 at 8:00 am UTC · 1 min read
Fancy a Bitcoin mined via volcano?
El Salvador’s proposed volcanic miners could change just that. The uncanny plan utilizes geothermal energy to produce energy that can in turn power mines, furthering the country’s broader ambition of including Bitcoin in its economy (El Salvador even became the first nation to ‘legalize’ the asset earlier this month).
The plan is moving ahead quickly. In a tweet this morning, El Salvador president Nayib Bukele released rendered images of what the proposed volcanic mine could look like. “Clean, volcano-powered hashrate coming soon,” he wrote.
Clean, volcano powered hashrate coming soon… #Bitcoin🇸🇻🌋♻️
Sneak peek 🤫 pic.twitter.com/u7ocqkKTN0
— Nayib Bukele 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) June 23, 2021
Bukele said earlier this month that local engineers had already built the primary foundation over which the hub would be erected. “Our engineers just informed me that they dug a new well that will provide approximately 95MW (of energy)….Starting to design a full Bitcoin mining hub around it,” he stated at the time.
Meanwhile, the development comes amidst an exodus of miners from China, currently the world’s leading crypto mining hub. The country’s government has famously been a naysayer of cryptocurrencies, and said last month that it would stamp out all forms of crypto transactions and mining in the region.
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