Is Solar Power A Good Fit For Bitcoin Mining?
As Bitcoin transforms the incentives around energy use, will solar power become the future of mining?There are two energy revolutions currently underway that complement one another: the revolution in human energy use, as greener or more sustainable options become a priority in the light of climate change, and the Bitcoin revolution that is driving a whole new frontier in how energy is used to create value.Solar power in particular seems like the cutting edge for renewable Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin industry stalwarts Blockstream and Square are constructing a multi-million-dollar solar-powered....
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A suburb in Fremantle, Western Australia will see its apartment owners to be among the first in the country to trade solar power over a blockchain. Solar-powered one-bedroom apartments developed by Landcorp, the development arm of the government of Western Australia are reportedly expected to be snapped up by predominantly young dwellers. These apartment-owners will soon be able to trade their any surplus solar energy over a blockchain developed by Power Ledger, a Perth startup that aims to enable owners of solar panels to sell excess energy. This beats the conventional model of selling....
Bitcoin mining company Solteir announced a partnership with OPTEC to have its mining operations in Pennsylvania run on clean solar energy.
The site will use a combination of solar panels and battery storage from excess daylight to power Bitcoin mining. On Friday, cryptocurrency storage company Blockstream and Block Inc. (formerly Square) announced the construction of a solar-powered Bitcoin (BTC) mining facility in Texas. As told by Blockstream, the mining site will be outfitted with 3.8 megawatts (MW) of electrical capacity using Tesla's Solar photovoltaic cell array and a 12 MWh Megapack.Manufactured by Tesla Energy, Megapack is a powerful lithium-ion battery that provides energy storage and support. In context, one of the....
The Sun Exchange, a South African bitcoin crowdlending platform allows people to invest bitcoin in solar power projects - both locally and globally. There is one striking similarity between climate change and Bitcoin. Both are considered unreal by a section of society. But for most of “concerned” us believe that they both exist – one as a environmental threat and other as a financial disruption. The Sun Exchange meanwhile, is a startup that is working towards using one’s innovation to battle other’s intimidation. One of the main concerns in today’s world is the depletion of fossil fuels....
The blockchain presents the opportunity of becoming a ‘potentially significant enabler’ for U.K. solar, according to SolarCoin co-founder Francois Sonnet. Speaking ahead of his panel on the future of solar technology at the Managing European Solar Assets event next month in London, he said that Bitcoin’s distributed ledger technology could be utilized across a number of different areas in the U.K. such as operation and management (O&M) and peer-to-peer energy trading, according to a report from Solar Power Portal. He said that the blockchain can help calculate any form of data, which....