Why The Navajo Are Mining Bitcoin
The technology of bitcoin provides an avenue for growth and financial empowerment unhindered by the American government.At nearly 400,000 people, the Navajo Nation is one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States. It’s also one of the most impoverished, with poverty statistics closer to the world’s least developed countries than its neighboring cities of Phoenix, Arizona, or Santa Fe, New Mexico.Nearly 50% of Navajo are unemployed, 40% don’t have running water, 32% live without electricity, and over 30% live below the poverty line, according to an April 2021 testimony....
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The Navajo Nation’s Bitcoin story might be the most wholesome of the last few months. The mine isn’t only providing employment within the reservation, it’s helping them transition from providing coal-powered energy to renewables. Another case study that proves Bitcoin incentivizes and funds green energy. Another story of Bitcoin helping the disenfranchised people of the world to find their footing. Related Reading | New To Bitcoin? Learn To Trade Crypto With The NewsBTC Trading Course How disenfranchised are the Navajo? “The Federal Government took away all the land rights away from....
Another day, another hydroelectric plant saved by Bitcoin mining. For the untrained eye, the narrative that says that Bitcoin incentivizes green energy might seem convenient. However, each day more concrete examples come to light. Like the Navajo Nation case. Or this hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica. In contrast, China banned Bitcoin mining and some hydroelectric plants immediately closed and went up for sale. Anyway, today we’re talking about the Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant in New York. Located near de Hudson River’s shore, in the Town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County. The place is....
BIT Mining, a cryptocurrency mining company that recently stated it will be expanding outside of China, aims to buy 2,500 Bitcoin miners for deployment in Kazakhstan. BIT Mining Goes To Kazakhstan BIT Mining announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to buy 2,500 Bitcoin (BTC) mining equipment for $6.6 million. The company has already installed […]
Bitcoin.com has launched its mining page, where newcomers can learn all the basics about how our favorite digital currency is created. Genesis Mining is helping promote our educational efforts on the mining front by being our first featured cloud mining service. The mining page on Bitcoin.com currently features a brief explanation of Bitcoin mining, with....
Shenzhen-based Bit Mining has started shipping bitcoin mining machines to Kazakhstan as the Chinese government cracks down on bitcoin mining operations in the country. Bit Mining Ltd., a mining company based in Shenzhen, announced Monday that “it had successfully delivered its first batch of mining machines to Kazakhstan.” The company explained that bitcoin mining machines will be delivered to Kazakhstan in three batches. The first batch consists of “320 mining machines with a theoretical maximum total hash rate capacity of 18.2 PH/s,” Bit Mining claims, noting....