El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin

Re:El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volca... by kerng on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:00PM (#27475012)

Its telling of the quality if HN, if the top comment is a false dichotomy... I have noticed a steep decline of thoughtful comments over the last year.

And of course: why not do both, and more?

Edit: lots of downvotes, but at least a higher quality comment is on top now.

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Re:El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volca... by jlarocco on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:04PM (#27475066)

Yeah, it's hard to imagine an implementation where the geothermal can only be used for bitcoin mining.

I'm not a fan of crypto or bitcoin, but if it funds their roll out of geothermal power, then that seems like a net-positive.

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Re:El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volca... by adrianN on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:47PM (#27475609)

> why not do both, and more

Presumably because they have limited capital and can't solve all problems at once?

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Re:El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volca... by lucb1e on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:43PM (#27475564)

> why not do both, and more?

We'd all love if they did that instead of what was announced, but that's not the announcement.

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