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El Salvador’s Bitcoin miner Volcano Energy launches with $250M investment

A public-private partnership in El Salvador pledging to pump $1 billion into creating a Bitcoin (BTC) mining farm has received its first $250 million. This first release of funds kickstarts a 241-megawatt (MW) power generation park in the country’s Metapán region.Volcano Energy, the company behind the site, said the funds

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Volcano Energy Secures $1B in Commitments, Including From Tether, For 241 MW Bitcoin (BTC) Mine in El Salvador

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Single inactive volcano has 90% chance of powering El Salvador’s Bitcoin City, according to president

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has claimed officials will be able to use geothermal energy from one of the country’s inactive volcanoes to power its Bitcoin City project.In a Sunday notice, Bukele said there was a 90% probability of using the Conchagua volcano to supply 42 megawatts — “enough to

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Junk-Rated El Salvador’s ‘Bitcoin Bonds’ Look Explosive (Think Volcano)

While El Salvador’s new bitcoin-linked bond may be one of the highest-yielding fixed-income instruments globally, it might turn out to be riskier than the country’s outstanding government bonds, which are already categorized as junk-grade.Some experts said the new offering might struggle to attract investors, especially because the bond appears to

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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Volcano Can Be a Model for Cleaner Crypto — CoinDesk

Bitcoin miners, by contrast, can be installed on even the remotest site, and connected to the Bitcoin blockchain wirelessly. As bitcoin adoption continues to grow, this has the potential to radically upend the logic of energy generation, including the utilization rate of “stranded energy” like El Salvador’s remote volcanoes, wasted

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