參觀危地馬拉湖城礦業 Bitcoin 用過的食用油

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21 年 2022 月 9 日星期三下午 48:XNUMX

參觀危地馬拉湖城礦業 Bitcoin 用過的食用油

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

一個圓形 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.

循環經濟創始人、醫學博士帕特里克·梅爾德（Patrick Melder）創造了“Bitcoin 湖，“ 告訴 Bitcoin Magazine that its “卡布姆” bitcoin 採礦項目 是希望幫助清潔附近的阿蒂特蘭湖，同時為社區提供持續收入來源的結果。

“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 感謝捐贈。 “Bitcoin mining was a way to get bitcoin flowing into the community.”

在這個項目之前已經進行了多次清理湖的嘗試，其中大多數都存在試圖一次解決所有問題的缺陷。 根據 Melder 的說法，大修方法會增加複雜性並最終降低完成的可能性。

“在過去的五年中，一項耗資超過 300 億美元的清理湖泊的重大努力失敗了，因為它是如此復雜，有如此多的大型利益相關者無法就解決方案達成一致，”他補充道。

Bitcoin Lake took a different approach by starting small with the repurposing of used cooking oil to power bitcoin 採礦 ASIC。

“這種食用油要么被扔到街上，要么被送到位於阿蒂特蘭湖上方數百英尺的垃圾填埋場，”梅爾德解釋說。 “無論哪種方式，它都會進入分水嶺和湖泊。”

Melder 表示，通過啟動這一舉措，他希望在鄰近社區引發滾雪球效應，因為他們意識到清潔環境不僅可行，而且有利可圖。

“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.”

Beyond Mining

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 這詳細說明了他對該項目的願景。

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， 創建一個 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.”

梅爾德說，從當地學校開始的工作已經擴展到鎮上更廣泛的受眾，以幫助各個年齡段的人更多地了解點對點數字貨幣的世界。

“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.”

原始來源： Bitcoin 雜誌