Congo's Virunga National {ark was in desperate need of money to stay afloat. A hydro-powered bitcoin mine was the answer, helping it to fund jobs, conservation and infrastructure.
Virunga started mining in September 2020, becoming the world's first known national park-operated bitcoin mine, just as the bitcoin bull market was taking off."We were lucky — for once," de Merode said.
Virunga's gorillas are an endangered species, but the park also cashed in on rare apes of a digital kind, teaming up with NFT project CyberKongz to auction off gorilla NFTs at Christie's. Some of the $1.2 million raised paid for two of the three containers owned by Virunga. That's proved to be popular for many working in and around the park. Still, not everyone is convinced of Bitcoin’s conservation credentials. In fact, its detractors often criticize it for the opposite — mainly due to the amount of energy required to run mining operations, with the electricity usually generated from fossil fuels. The director-general of the European Central Bank even called it an"unprecedented polluter.
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