Soluna plans to clean up Bitcoin's energy issues with renewables

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Huge wind farm in the Sahara will power data centres dedicated to crypto-mining

Blockchain has a big energy problem. To remain secure blockchains such as Bitcoin rely on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism which burns a colossal amount of energy. Just a decade old, Bitcoin...

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