Subj : Crypto currencies and mining..
To   : apam
From : Ogg
Date : Sun Oct 24 2021 08:54 am

Hello apam!

** On Sunday 24.10.21 - 12:29, apam wrote to Ogg:

>> "El Salvador announced plans on accepting cryptocurrency as
>> legal tender and calls for the use of geothermal energy for
>> bitcoin mining in the country."

a> But why? That energy could be used for powering homes / buisnesses etc,
a> instead.

a> Seems like a massive waste of resources to me, for what?

For powering homes I would think that there would need be an
infrastructure to distribute the power from the geothermal site
to the homes.

But only one structure that can draw power from a geothermal
vent is much simpler?

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