参观危地马拉湖镇矿业 Bitcoin 用废食用油

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21 年 2022 月 9 日星期三下午 48:XNUMX

参观危地马拉湖镇矿业 Bitcoin 用废食用油

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

一个圆形 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.

循环经济创始人帕特里克·梅尔德医学博士提出“Bitcoin 湖，“ 告诉 Bitcoin Magazine that its “卡布姆” bitcoin 采矿项目 这是希望帮助清理附近的阿蒂特兰湖，同时为社区提供持续收入来源的结果。

“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 感谢捐赠。 “Bitcoin mining was a way to get bitcoin flowing into the community.”

在这个项目之前，已经进行了许多清理湖泊的尝试，其中大多数都存在试图一次性解决所有问题的缺陷。梅尔德表示，大修方法会增加复杂性并最终降低完成的可能性。

“在过去的五年中，一项耗资超过 300 亿美元的清理湖泊的重大努力失败了，因为它是如此复杂，有如此多的大型利益相关者无法就解决方案达成一致，”他补充道。

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

“这些食用油要么被扔到街上，要么被运往位于阿蒂特兰湖上方数百英尺的垃圾填埋场，”梅尔德解释道。 “无论哪种方式，它都会找到进入分水岭和湖泊的方法。”

梅尔德表示，通过启动这一举措，他预计会在邻近社区引发滚雪球效应，因为他们意识到清洁环境不仅可行，而且有利可图。

“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.”

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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 湖。

“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 博客文章 详细说明了他对该项目的愿景。

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， 创建一个 bitcoin circular economy and clean the environment with bitcoin mining as the economic incentive.”

而 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.”

梅尔德说，从当地学校开始的这项工作后来扩展到了镇上更广泛的受众，试图帮助各个年龄段的人们更多地了解点对点数字货币的世界。

“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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