Odwiedź górnictwo nad jeziorem Gwatemalskim Bitcoin ze zużytym olejem spożywczym

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śr., 21 wrz 2022 9:48

Odwiedź górnictwo nad jeziorem Gwatemalskim Bitcoin ze zużytym olejem spożywczym

Inspired by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, a town in Guatemala is focused on cleaning its lake by diverting used cooking oil to bitcoin górniczy.

Okrągły 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.

Patrick Melder, MD, założyciel gospodarki o obiegu zamkniętym, ukuty “Bitcoin jezioro”- powiedział Bitcoin Magazine that its „Kabum” bitcoin projekt górniczy jest wynikiem chęci pomocy w czyszczeniu pobliskiego jeziora Atitlán, zapewniając jednocześnie społeczności źródło stałego dochodu.

“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 dzięki darowiźnie. "Bitcoin mining was a way to get bitcoin flowing into the community.”

Przed tym projektem podjęto wiele prób oczyszczenia jeziora, z których większość miała błąd polegający na próbie rozwiązania wszystkiego na raz. Według Meldera, podejście remontowe zwiększa złożoność i ostatecznie zmniejsza prawdopodobieństwo ukończenia.

„W ciągu ostatnich pięciu lat duży wysiłek na rzecz oczyszczenia jeziora, który kosztował ponad 300 milionów dolarów, nie powiódł się, ponieważ był tak złożony z tak wieloma dużymi udziałowcami, którzy nie mogli dojść do porozumienia w sprawie rozwiązania” – dodał.

Bitcoin Lake took a different approach by starting small with the repurposing of used cooking oil to power bitcoin mining ASICs.

„Ten olej kuchenny albo zostałby wyrzucony na ulicę, albo trafiłby na wysypisko śmieci, które znajduje się kilkaset stóp nad jeziorem Atitlán” – wyjaśnił Melder. „Tak czy inaczej, znalazłby drogę do zlewni i do jeziora”.

Rozpoczynając tę ​​inicjatywę, Melder powiedział, że spodziewa się wywołać efekt kuli śnieżnej w sąsiednich społecznościach, ponieważ zdają sobie sprawę, że sprzątanie środowiska może być nie tylko wykonalne, ale także opłacalne.

“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.”

Poza górnictwem

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 Jezioro.

“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 blogu który szczegółowo przedstawiał jego wizję projektu.

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, Stwórz bitcoin circular economy and clean the environment with bitcoin mining as the economic incentive.”

Kompletujemy wszystkie dokumenty (wymagana jest kopia paszportu i XNUMX zdjęcia) potrzebne do 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.”

Praca, która rozpoczęła się w lokalnej szkole, rozprzestrzeniła się na szerszą publiczność w mieście, powiedział Melder, próbując pomóc ludziom w każdym wieku dowiedzieć się więcej o świecie cyfrowych pieniędzy peer-to-peer.

“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.

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.”

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