El Salvador releases ‘Sneak Peek’ of Volcanic Bitcoin Mining

Volcanoes have long been painted as a method of natural destruction. But El Salvador’s ambitious new plan places them at the center of solving a global concern: Mining Bitcoin via renewable, clean, green energy sources.  Mining “proof-of-work” cryptocurrencies involves using a massive computing system that solves millions of complex calculations each second to validate transactions on networks like Bitcoin.

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