Virunga National Park, home to the precious Mountain Gorillas, saved by monetising excess hydro energy for #Bitcoin mining: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/13/1066820/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-congo-virunga-national-park/
30 sats \ 0 replies \ @satcat 13 Jan 2023
Great read! Very complicated situation in Virunga, but so cool to know that Bitcoin is helping solve their problems!
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin 13 Jan 2023
Ummm.... murder specifically is a term for killing of another human, in violation of a law.
This was a tragedy, but it was not "murder".
Ha! So Warren Buffet benefited from bitcoin in this instance. The project that was started thanks to his money was eventually completed only because bitcoin mining provided the revenue needed to justify the investment.
Cool, so they figured out how to get mEth heads to pay for some bitcoin mining rigs!!!
Wow!
[Peter Howson] would rather have seen the hydroelectric project fail without funding to complete the construction (and thus those 12,000 jobs would not have been created) than for it to have been built but then serve a bitcoin mining op -- a 100% clean, renewable, off-grid electric consumer, as one of its customers.
This is typical with these central bankers, academics and others if the unproductive class (using the term Marty Bent prefers, over the "global elite") -- It's not about what's best for the people (i.e., those in DR Congo), but what keeps the unproductive class in power. Bitcoin forces the unproductive class to yield some a not insignificant amount of their power and therefore they will go against bitcoin even if it results in a negative outcome for those among the poorest in the world.
Crikey. And those miners in North Dakota think they are the toughest because they survived a blizzard while keeping the mining op producing!
That was a well written, balanced article about an (needlessly) divisive topic and an inspirational story.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthzar 13 Jan 2023
Missed opportunity; the title could have been Gorillas, Guerillas, and Bitcoin...
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin 13 Jan 2023
I'ld manage "Baby Kong" (the NFT that funded two of the mining op containers) in there too! LOL
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 14 Jan 2023
Donated sats yesterday. Encourage others to do the same.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @FR0STBIT 13 Jan 2023
Now this is a project I can ape into! 🦍
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 13 Jan 2023
Top! Thank You very much. Story telling is key for having success in the media! Veeery good job.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @JoeNakamoto 13 Jan 2023
This really deserves its own Netflix documentary. Such a cool story
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cozy7 13 Jan 2023 freebie
awesome