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Mining Bitcoin with volcanoes. El Salvador lures miners with cheap geothermal energy, beaches and lack of a number of taxes
A few days ago, El Salvador became the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender along with the US dollar. And now the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, invites miners and crypto-investors to move to El Salvador, enticing them including … volcanoes.
On Wednesday, Bukele ordered the president of state-owned geothermal energy company LaGeo to provide renewable energy for bitcoin mining, and the very next day, the company’s specialists drilled a new well capable of providing about 95 MW of power. In this area, they are going to eventually build a mining hub.
Our engineers just informed me that they dug a new well, that will provide approximately 95MW of 100% clean, 0 emissions geothermal energy from our volcanos ???? Starting to design a full #Bitcoin mining hub around it. What you see coming out of the well is pure water vapor ???????? pic.twitter.com/SVph4BEW1L
– Nayib Bukele ???????? (@nayibbukele) June 9, 2021
Since the issue of the environmental friendliness of the cryptocurrency mining process has recently been very acute, in El Salvador they already know how to solve it, at least on their territory.
El Salvador is called the land of lakes and volcanoes, because in a small territory of the state there is a very large number of both extinct and active volcanoes. Accordingly, geothermal energy is quite actively developed in the country. As a result, according to the president of the country, Bitcoin mining using volcanoes will be implemented in El Salvador.
I sent a drone to film one of the new wells … Nice rainbow ???? Bitcoin mining with the power of volcanos!#BTC?????????????? pic.twitter.com/cEIFcf23tS
– Nayib Bukele ???????? (@nayibbukele) June 11, 2021
Separately, Bukele published a list of benefits when moving to El Salvador. He mentioned beautiful beaches, great weather, no real estate tax, no capital gains tax for Bitcoin miners, and immediate permanent residency for crypto entrepreneurs.
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But Intel only managed to release competitors for the Threadripper 5000. Asus confirms that the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 will be released in the second half of the year
AMD is indeed going to launch Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors in the second half of this year. Previously, these were just rumors and leaks, and now this was announced by an Asus representative.
Interestingly, he mentioned this in a video demonstrating the work of the Intel Sapphire Rapids WS platform, the processors of which are currently competing with the Threadripper 5000, but soon they will have to compete with the Threadripper 7000.
Threadripper 7000 will switch to a new socket and a new Zen 4 architecture. This will bring them support for DDR5 memory, probably PCIe 5.0 interface. In addition, the top-end Threadripper 7000s are expected to be 96-core, just like their sister Epyc Genoa.
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6000 mAh, 6.75 inch big screen, 48 MP for $190. Introduced the monster of autonomy Huawei Enjoy 60
Huawei has unveiled the affordable Enjoy 60 phone, which features a 6,000mAh battery (it supports 22.5W charging). With the old and undemanding platform Kirin 710A, the autonomy of this device is very good: the creators say that you can charge your smartphone only twice a week.
Huawei Enjoy 60 received a 6.75-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 1600 x 720 pixels and a frame rate of 60 Hz. The front camera is 8-megapixel, the main one is with sensors with a resolution of 48 and 2 megapixels (but the second sensor is not directly involved in photography, it is used only to analyze the depth of the scene).
The thickness of the case was 8.98 mm, weight – 199 grams. There is a side fingerprint scanner, and HarmonyOS 3.0 acted as a software platform.
The cost of the basic version of new items with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of flash memory is $190. The variant with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of flash memory is priced at $220. Sales in China will start on March 24.
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One of the quietest Radeon RX 7900 XT is available for just $800. Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XT now $100 off MSRP
The Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XT graphics card is another adapter that you can buy for just $800. The recommended price of this AMD model is $900.
The card is currently available on NewEgg for $820, but you can use a promo code for an additional $20 discount. Thus, now this is the most affordable solution among all RX 7900 XT. In addition, as the TechPowerUp review shows, this is also one of the quietest versions of the RX 7900 XT, although it is far from the coldest.
It is also worth noting that we are talking about a non-reference card, so it will not have problems with excessive heating of the Hot-Spot.
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