A Bitcoin mine in Congo is fueling a surprising conservation effort

Bitcoin is hardly known for its environmental qualities, nor its affiliation with, uhh, conservation efforts. But a strange situation has arisen in the Congo. While other mining initiatives continue to ravage the country, the practice of Bitcoin mining—which is to say, hosting server farms where CPUs can waste heaps of unnecessary energy (and heat) by performing complex calculations in order to verify financial transactions on a digital ledger—has apparently emerged as an unexpected source of some potential positivity. — Read the rest

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