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Cryptocurrency mines have never been associated with the British countryside but one farmer is working to change that, turning his farm into a environmentally friendly way to scour the digital sphere for coins.
High-tech cryptocurrency mining operations require computers to work day and night and consume vast amounts of power. This is to solve complex data problems and mint new virtual coins.
Thirty-year-old businessman Josh Riddett, boss of Bury-based Crypto Mining company Easy Crypto Hunter, has solved another conundrum: how to do this while minimising your energy bill.
He has been building sites where cow manure is used to create energy via anaerobic digestion – this creates methane to run electricity generators.
Mr Riddett’s company caters to so-called crypto “whales” – a major crypto owner – or high-net-worth individuals who have paid to run machines round the clock to rake in profits from Ethereum and Ravencoin, coins that have soared in value in the past 12 month but do not require as much energy to unlock as Bitcoin.
“The machines are capable of mining hundreds of different digital currencies. We don’t mine Bitcoin because we find the rewards are far greater from the other currencies which are more profitable and more energy efficient,” he said.
Each computer can provide profits of around £30,000 per year with the bulk of those gains made in the past 12 months. Ethereum has risen 901 pc while Ravencoin has risen 183pc.
Farmers with renewable energy sources can sell their power to the National Grid for around 4-7 pence per kilowatt hour – but they can often earn up to 10 times that running a crypto mining machine instead, according to Mr Riddett.
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