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Наведайце гватэмальскі азёрны майнінг Bitcoin З адпрацаваным алеем
Inspired by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, a town in Guatemala is focused on cleaning its lake by diverting used cooking oil to bitcoin шахцёры.
Цыркуляр bitcoin economy in Guatemala is using resources that would otherwise be wasted to fuel a local bitcoin mining operation, giving its resident financial autonomy and demonstrating a viable economic path outside of the government-controlled economy.
Патрык Мелдэр, доктар медыцынскіх навук, заснавальнік кругавой эканомікі прыдумаў «Bitcoin Возера", - распавёў Bitcoin Magazine that its «Кабум» bitcoin праект майнинга з'яўляецца вынікам жадання дапамагчы ачысціць суседняе возера Атытлан, забяспечваючы пры гэтым крыніцу пастаяннага даходу для грамадства.
“We don’t have any major endowment or donations to do what we are doing,” he said, underscoring a stark difference with El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, which was established in part дзякуючы ахвяраванні. "Bitcoin mining was a way to get bitcoin flowing into the community.”
Да гэтага праекта было зроблена шмат спробаў ачысціць возера, большасць з якіх пакутавала ад недахопу, калі спрабавалі вырашыць усё адразу. Па словах Мельдэра, падыход да капітальнага рамонту павялічвае складанасць і ў выніку зніжае верагоднасць завяршэння.
«На працягу апошніх пяці гадоў сур'ёзныя намаганні па ачыстцы возера, якія каштавалі больш за 300 мільёнаў долараў, праваліліся, таму што яны былі вельмі складанымі з вялікай колькасцю зацікаўленых бакоў, якія не маглі дамовіцца аб рашэнні», — дадаў ён.
Bitcoin Lake took a different approach by starting small with the repurposing of used cooking oil to power bitcoin mining ASICs.
«Гэты кулінарны алей будзе альбо выкінуты на вуліцу, альбо знойдзецца на сметніку, які знаходзіцца ў некалькіх сотнях футаў над возерам Атытлан», - растлумачыў Мелдэр. «У любым выпадку, ён знойдзе свой шлях у водападзел і ў возера».
This is the generator used to power the bitcoin mining ASICs of the Kaboom project. Gallons of used cooking oil that fuel the generator sit on the right side of the photo. (Photo/Bitcoin Lake).Запусціўшы гэту ініцыятыву, Мелдэр сказаў, што разлічвае выклікаць эфект снежнага камяка ў суседніх абшчынах, паколькі яны разумеюць, што ачыстка навакольнага асяроддзя можа быць не толькі магчымай, але і прыбытковай.
“All community leaders and the citizens of the lake are concerned about the environment but there are limited tools and resources to tackle the problem. So our goal is to create a ‘sliding scale’ use of wasted/stranded energy to mine bitcoin and in the process clean the lake and create wealth in the communities. It’s a sliding scale because in one small community, we may simply have a ‘Kaboom-like’ project or we may have small bio-digesters collecting waste.”
Пакрыху, Bitcoin Lake is racking ASIC machines that produce a steady stream of bitcoin income by repurposing a resource that would otherwise be wasted and find its way into the local lake. (Photo/Bitcoin Lake)Акрамя майнинга
Panajachel, Guatemala. (Photo/Bitcoin Lake)Melder used to travel with his family to the city of Panajachel, Guatemala, every summer during his daughters’ undergraduate school years, but after they graduated from college, those trips to the Central American country came to an end. However, Melder and his wife kept seeking ways to come back. It wasn’t too long until he found out about Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, which ultimately inspired him to travel once more to Panajachel and start Bitcoin Возера.
“My desire was to bring the Bitcoin Beach model to Panajachel which is a beautiful town on Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan highlands,” he wrote in a 2021 блог які падрабязна апісаў сваё бачанне праекта.
In addition to cleaning up the lake, Melder detailed in that blog post the other goals that Bitcoin Lake would set out to achieve from the start, including helping a local education center and creating economic opportunities for the “small but vibrant Guatemalan town.” Since then, Bitcoin has been at the forefront of the project’s work.
“Everything we do in the community is related to bitcoin. It is either funded by bitcoin, teaches about bitcoin or is taught or implemented by bitcoin,” Melder told Bitcoin Magazine. “Our three goals in the community are to teach about bitcoin, Стварыць bitcoin circular economy and clean the environment with bitcoin mining as the economic incentive.”
У той час як Bitcoin Lake tackles the latter, the other two goals have not been sidelined. On the education front, the project has helped introduce Bitcoin-related coursework to the local education center Centro Educativo Josué.
“The children there are taught about every aspect of Bitcoin, from ‘what is money?,’ ‘what is inflation?,’ ‘why bitcoin was created,’ to the basics of bitcoin mining, setting up a bitcoin full node, etc.,” Melder detailed. “We are proud to say that we have been doing this since January of 2022 developing our own curriculum along the way and we’ve had Bitcoiners from around the world come and help.”
Праца, якая пачалася ў мясцовай школе, з тых часоў распаўсюдзілася на больш шырокую аўдыторыю ў горадзе, сказаў Мелдэр, у спробе дапамагчы людзям усіх узростаў даведацца больш пра свет аднарангавых лічбавых грошай.
“We’ve held bitcoin educational meetings for adults and business owners in the community and striven to include the indigenous community leaders as well,” he said.
With a better understanding of the technology, adoption is facilitated as users and business owners aren’t caught off guard or coerced into using bitcoin. Rather, a movement begins, naturally.
“Since we’ve started in January of this year, we’ve onboarded over 60 businesses in and around Panajachel, and in Guatemala as a whole we have about 200 businesses that we have onboarded to accept bitcoin,” Melder explained.
Business in Panajachel, Guatemala accepting bitcoin. (Photo/Bitcoin Lake)As awareness about Bitcoin grows and adoption keeps increasing, the community is set to keep expanding its initiatives. On the mining front, Melder expects to further develop the repurposing of wasted and stranded resources to increase the community’s steady income and improve the efficiency of the lake’s clean-up even more.
“Our environmental cleanup/Bitcoin mining initiative just started, but will grow to the point in about a year that we can actually take unsorted landfill waste (new or old) and turn it into a clean energy source to mine bitcoin,” Melder forecasted. “We are working with a group out of the U.K. to bring this to life and it will have a major impact in Panajachel and Guatemala as we now have an economic incentive to clean the massive waste issue that exists in Guatemala and in most developing countries. We are proud that we will be first to market with this technology.”
Landfill in Panajachel, Guatemala. (Photo/Bitcoin Lake)Арыгінальны крыніца: Bitcoin Часопіс