This Bitcoin Mine Is Getting Rid Of Pennsylvania’s Leftover Coal Waste
Who’s going to put leftover coal to use powering the world’s most incredible financial network? Bitcoin, that’s who. Another day, another story about bitcoin mining actually protecting the environment in a practical way. This time we travel to the previously-abandoned Panther Creek Energy Facility in coal country, Pennsylvania. Stronghold Digital Mining purchased it and, besides […]
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Stronghold Digital Mining has raised more than $100 million in two private placements supporting its model for sustainable Bitcoin mining. The Pennsylvania-based Stronghold Digital Mining has announced the completion of two private equity securities raises worth $105 million.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the firm’s first power generation facility, the Scrubgrass Generation Plant in Venango County, converts waste coal into energy on a scale equivalent to “a large-scale hydropower plant” that is then used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The waste coal....
Stronghold, a bitcoin mining company that claims to eliminate 200 tons of waste coal for each bitcoin mined, has raised $105 million.
Stronghold Digital Mining, a bitcoin miner powered by coal waste, has acquired a second coal refuse site in Pennsylvania with an 80 MW capacity.