Very far from the usual clichés about bitcoin as a major energy consumer (and therefore to be avoided), fabulous innovations are born and prosper every day. With 135,000 farms in Ireland, many farmers are seeing their businesses threatened by announced restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. Tom Campbell and Scilling Mining could give hope to all our farmers threatened with bankruptcy.
From cow dung to bitcoin (BTC)
Everyone knows the difficulties of farmers and breeders who have a difficult and currently endangered profession. In wanting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, governments want to limit the number of farm animals. This is the reason why farmers demonstrated in large numbers at the The Netherlands. Solutions rarely coming from the political world, we can say that the story of Tom Campbell is edifying: self-produce electricity thanks to the dung of his cows and what is more with a surplus allowing to mine bitcoin (BTC)! This would save the 135,000 Irish farms and its 7.3 million cows (but also many others around the world).
Mined bitcoin thanks to anaerobic digestion
We already know the process of anaerobic digestion, a process that produces biogas, which is itself used for electricity generation. Unlike solar and wind energy, the energy thus produced is constant. And for Tom Campbell, it is not only regular, but produced in excess, which allows him to mine “green” bitcoins. Campbell’s farm produces up to 700 kilowatts of electrical power, which is equivalent to the consumption of nearly 12,000 households. If 41% of Irish farms adopted this process, it would be enough to power all Irish homes (not counting the bitcoins earned by producers).
Tom Campbell is the “Bitcoin Farmer”. With Scilling Mining, he runs the only farm in Ireland that produces clean, excess energy which he uses to mine bitcoins. This Cointelegraph documentary explores the green and renewable future of bitcoin.
To understand how it works, go to the website of Scilling Mining.
While many governments want to ban bitcoin mining at all costs, but also reduce the size of farms, Tom Campbell’s solution (and Scilling mining) reconciles everyone. Clean and highly productive energy and regular income for farmers. This is enough to reconsider the ideas received on the energy consumption of bitcoin mining!
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