- President Nayib Bukele proposed a rent your volcano to mine Bitcoin initiative recently.
- El Salvador has extensively used its natural resources, particularly its 170 volcanoes.
In a novel and innovative move, El Salvador is mining Bitcoin utilizing the strength of its volcanic landscape. While praising the country’s geothermal energy potential, President Nayib Bukele proposed a “rent your volcano to mine Bitcoin” initiative recently.
El Salvador has used its natural resources, particularly its 170 volcanoes, to generate clean energy, mostly from geothermal power. The country’s active volcanoes have transformed geothermal energy into a 25% contributor to the overall power production.
Leveraging Geothermal Power
El Salvador’s top geothermal power provider, LaGeo, has two massive facilities that harness massive amounts of energy from volcanic heat, providing power to homes and businesses while cutting down on fossil fuel use.
Moreover, El Salvador extracted 1.5 MW of power from the Tecapa volcano in 2021, making it the first nation to do so for Bitcoin mining. As a bold step toward combining renewable energy with cryptocurrency, this mining operation has already produced 474 Bitcoins, valued at almost $46 million.
Geothermal power provides a greener alternative to conventional energy sources, and this project has garnered both support and criticism. By striking a similar balance between ecological sustainability and technological innovation, it paves the way for other volcanically active nations to accomplish the same.
El Salvador is becoming a major player in the cryptocurrency industry, and its geothermal-powered Bitcoin mining is a model for how the nation might use its natural resources to finance future technological developments.
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