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🧵THREAD: Instead of shamefully promoting pyramidal yield-chasing custodial schemes, to separate savers from their #Bitcoin, VCs could have invested in energy innovation through Bitcoin mining.

Here are some examples of innovators who are changing the world for the better. 1/
Meet @ShaunEnergy. He works with @Lancium which uses #Bitcoin to balance and stabilize the power grid and foster clean energy production. 2/ anchor.fm/closingtheloop/episodes/22---Shaun-Connell-Bitcoin-Mining-is-the-Holy-Grail-for-Power-Grids...
Meet @Digital_Ore. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Vespene.Energy, which uses existing landfill methane
to fuel Bitcoin mining and generate electricity from refuse. 3/ youtu.be/lCkHEqxDsYQ
Meet @NateHawaii and @MichaelHawaii. They co-founded OceanBit to unlock clean, continuous base load ocean thermal power 🌊, for the 1 Billion people who live within 100 km of tropical oceans. 4/ bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-unlocks-ocean-energy
Meet Dan Roberts. He co-founded IrisEnergy.co, which soaks up excess energy, from intermittent renewables, and makes them profitable and balances the power grid. 5/ youtu.be/2aQuSQi8c2o
Meet @jorkney5. He is Lead Rates & Regulatory Strategy Analyst at Duke Energy—one of the largest energy holding companies in the US. He explains how Duke is studying #Bitcoin mining as a controllable load, in the context of Demand Response. 6/

anchor.fm/troy-cross0/episodes/Justin-Orkney-Duke-Energy-is-studying-bitcoin-e1jmt8v
Meet @jbelizaireCEO. He is CEO of Soluna Computing, a part of @SolunaHoldings, which catalyzes renewable energy using #Bitcoin and other forms of batchable computing. 7/
youtu.be/24M3AOru7N0
Meet @HodlTarantula. He is COO of
@Sovereignmining, which deploys mobile #Bitcoin miners into stranded locations. He mitigates fugitive emissions from abandoned wells and restores them to prevent the leaking of dangerous methane into the atmosphere 8/. youtu.be/ZjdE2WGsOI0
Meet @ZachKBradford. He is CEO and President of @CleanSpark_Inc which helps to build out renewable infrastructure and empower the next stage of economic development in communities in the United States. 9/ youtu.be/Z_m5PpCZVdQ
Got more examples of companies using #Bitcoin to incubate and foster energy innovation? Share them here and I'll add them to the thread. 10/
Meet @BdGBertdeGroot. He mines #Bitcoin with solar power to heat an enormous greenhouse for growing flowers at @BloemBitcoin. Buy some with ₿ Lightning⚡️at bitcoinbloem.com 11/
Meet @Ricardo_NGV. He Co-founder at @biomining and is using #Bitcoin to harness Biogas from manure, in Mexico. 12/ bitcoinmagazine.com/business/using-poop-and-biogas-to-mine-bitcoin
Meet @stillbtc. He is working on bitcoingreenhouse.org which seeks to build an open source standard for heating greenhouses with #Bitcoin and solar power. And @massivebitcoin to help homeowners monetize their excess generation and expand solar. 13/
Meet Abraham Cambridge, He is CEO of @TheSunExchange, which is the world’s first peer-to-peer solar leasing platform which uses #Bitcoin to help customers monetize the sun. 14/ greyjabesi.com/ep97/
Meet @GoingParabolic. Jason created PRTItech.com, a company that uses patented technology to turn used or unsaleable tires into fuel, which is then used to mine #Bitcoin, extract materials and capture emissions to prevent them from entering the atmosphere. 15/
Meet @ajscalia. He is CEO of @CathedraBitcoin, which uses off-grid stranded natural gas that would otherwise be vented or flared, to mine #Bitcoin—mitigating massive amounts of methane from entering the atmosphere. 16/
Meet @toddo, the CEO of @GAMdotAI. His team is cleaning up the extraction of oil and natural gas, by turning harmful CH₄ emissions into #Bitcoin. 17/
Meet @hashoveride. Ben is Chief Mining Officer of @Bitfarms_io, which has mined over 16,000 #Bitcoin with excess renewable hydropower. 18/
Meet Kjetil Hove Pettersen. He is CEO of Kryptovault, which uses heat from hydropowered #Bitcoin mining to dry lumber. 19/
Meet @Colin_Sully. He is CEO at @MintGreenHQ, which collaborated with @shelterpoint distillery to use the thermal energy from #Bitcoin mining to heat the distillery's mash and whisky barrel aging processes.
Meet the people of @LakeBitcoin, who are mining #Bitcoin with cooking oil (and eventually sewage) and thereby cleaning up the Guatemalan watershed of Lake Atitlan. 21/

Meet @Mark_Morton_. He works for @ScillingMining in Armagh, Ireland and is using an anaerobic digester power plant to mine #Bitcoin. 22/

Meet the folks behind @GridlessCompute. They are monetizing micro-hydro plants in Kenya with #Bitcoin mining. 23/


Say hello to @BdGBertdeGroot, again. He founded @BitcoinBrabant and is now heating a warehouse with solar powered #Bitcoin miners. 24/


Meet Bruce Hardy. He's the owner of this 20,000-square-foot building in the rural municipality of St. Francois Xavier, where 30 #Bitcoin miners heat his sustainable greenhouse and fish farm operation. 25/

Meet @Virungawarden Emmanuel de Merode, the director of @gorillacd Virunga National Park in eastern Congo 🇨🇬. The park is mining #Bitcoin to fund conservation of coveted natural resources, by turning hydropower into benefits for both the park and locals. www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/13/1066820/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-congo-virunga-national-park...
The project to turn excess hydro power into Bitcoin, and help save @gorillacd Virunga National Park, was made possible by @SebGouspillou @Dji_Dji_ and @T_Charbonnel at @BBGreenServices. An Incredible effort.👏

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