Original archived Re: El Salvador has become the first country to make #Bitcoin legal tender! 🇸🇻
Scraped on 03/05/2025, 17:29:48 UTC
El Salvador launches a project called volcanic power. This project is designed to provide and supply adequate energies for bitcoin miners in El Salvador.
El Salvador's volcanic energy project has been in the works for several years, If I'm not mistaken, they've probably been mining Bitcoin using this energy since 2021. We all know that this country has already managed to reserve over 6K BTC, of which they have been able to mine 474 Bitcoins using geothermal energy. Maybe this example will make it clear to you that they have been using volcanic energy for Bitcoin mining for a long time.
Make every watt count and turn it into an opportunity. 🚀
A few years ago I read in an article that the country's power plant was capable of producing 102 megawatts of electricity but El Salvador used 1.5 megawatts of electricity from there for Bitcoin mining.
The administration of Bitcoin enthusiast President Nayib Bukele, who earlier this year was reelected to a second term, has installed 300 processors to "mine" bitcoins from the volcano. Of the 102 megawatts (MW) produced by the state-owned power plant, 1.5 MW are devoted to cryptocurrency mining.