Mining incentives to help the planet

The creativity of crypto miners continues to fascinate us. We’re not speaking here about huge mining farms looking for a nice dam to settle, but the smaller projects that help making our planet greener, all while mining Bitcoin.

We’ve already spoken about stranded natural gas from oil extraction fields that is captured and turned into energy to mine.

Miners like Easy Crypto Hunter from Manchester, UK, are settling mining farms on actual cow farms and transform the manure (cow poop to be simple) into energy, capturing the methane – one of the greenhouse gases highly responsible for the climate change.

Revealed yesterday, another eco-mining project started in California. The region so badly hit with wildfires knows that one of their accelerators are dead trees, which sadly become ever more numerous due to the beetle infestation, which itself has increased badly due to the climate change. This is what a vicious circle is. VGRID energy systems came up with a portable solution to capture the CO2 from the dead trees and convert it into the energy for mining, aiming at decreasing the CO2 from dead trees and fires into the atmosphere, and of course help all the forest animals and plants.

Mining within carbon-negative projects like these provide the necessary incentive for people to help the environment, while remunerating their efforts. With our planet in real danger now, it is crucial that they thrive.

So what if the future of mining were the small miners dispersed all over the planet trying to make it healthier? We would certainly like to believe so.

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