Cash Crops: Dutch Use Bitcoin Mining To Grow Tulips
Agriculture, cryptocurrency, flowers, netherlands, synd
, 2022-12-10 23:48:03,
Warmth from bitcoin mining servers heats the tulip greenhouse near Amsterdam, saving on energy bills
Valeria Mongelli
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Pictures by Valeria Mongelli. Video by Jan Hennop
Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together.
Engineer Bert de Groot inspects the six bitcoin miners as they perform complex sums to earn cryptocurrency, filling the air with a noisy whine along with a blast of warmth.
That warmth is now heating the hothouse where rows of tulips grow, cutting the farmers’ reliance on gas whose price has soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting the impact on the environment.
Grower Danielle Koning says the tulips and bitcoin scheme is a ‘win-win…
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