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Finanças

Bolivian State Energy Firm to Use Crypto to Pay for Imports: Reuters

YBFB hopes that using crypto will be a direct solution to the nation's shortage in U.S. dollars and foreign currency reserves.

Bolivia flag (Planet Volumes/Unsplash +)

Finanças

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Signs Deal With Kenya to Invest in Green Energy Projects

The company will help monetize stranded energy in the African country and help manage its renewable energy production.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Bitcoin Mining’s Boon for Small Town America

Will Foxley’s doc about a small Texas town’s embrace of a new mining facility paints a more positive story about Bitcoin’s impact on rural communities than typically reported.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Will Foxley/The Big Empty)

Opinião

Is the DOE Crypto Mining Data Request an Opportunity for Energy Innovation or for Political Opportunists?

The survey offers little insight into how the data will be used and can easily become fodder for an anti-cryptocurrency narrative, Digital Energy Council founder Tom Mapes writes.

The non-profit Digital Energy Council asks that the EIA also consider the positive impacts of crypto mining on U.S. energy infrastructure, in a response to the agency's open request for comment. (Matthew Henry/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinião

The U.S. Government Seems to Be Closing in on Bitcoin Mining

A Department of Energy survey to collect data about crypto's energy consumption could be used to justify the stance that blockchain poses a “public harm.”

Bitmain Antminer S19 Hydro mining rigs, the company's latest technology, installed at a Merkle Standard facility in Washington state. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Política

EU Seeks More Data on Crypto’s ‘Significant’ Environmental Harm

The bloc’s executive arm is spending $842K on a study as it mulls what to do about energy-hungry proof-of-work technology

The EU is worried about crypto's energy use (Steve Buissinne / Pixabay)

Consensus Magazine

‘We’re Compute Cowboys’: Gideon Powell on the Pioneer Spirit Driving Bitcoin Mining

An interview with the CEO of Cholla Inc., an oil & gas exploration company that’s investing in bitcoin mining.

Gideon Powell, who runs the family business Cholla Mining, sees bitcoin miners as modern day wildcatters. (Gideon Powell)

Finanças

Stablecoin Issuer Tether Invests in Sustainable Bitcoin Mining in Uruguay

The company earlier this month announced plans to invest part of its profits in BTC purchases and infrastructure.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Política

Texas Senate Passes Bill to Limit Bitcoin Miners' Participation in Demand Response Programs

Bill likely to fail in the House, says miner Marathon Digital.

(Pete Alexopoulos/Unsplash)

Opinião

The New York Times' Skewed Bitcoin Mining Exposé Reveals Blatant Bias

A new hit piece from “the paper of record” makes it clear: These are not serious people.

Aspen Creek is just one bitcoin mining facility that tapped Texas' cheap, but atypical, electricity grid. (Aspen Creek)