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Mining cryptocurrencies with the wind from La Guajira would be among the plans of the president-elect.
Community members see digital mining as a way out of the dollar crisis.
The community that revolves around cryptocurrencies is talking on Twitter about the triumph of Gustavo Petro as the new president of Colombia. He will take office in August, but already, many are wondering where he will stand with respect to bitcoin (BTC)? Will there be a possibility that the cryptoactive be declared legal tender as it happened in El Salvador?
Little is known about Petro’s current position regarding the cryptocurrency industry, there are only references to comments he made in the past, when he came to highlight that Colombia has the potential to export clean energy to mine bitcoin. In fact, at the time, he applauded the initiative launched in El Salvador to mine cryptocurrencies with geothermal energy.
There is no record of Petro mentioning bitcoin during his latest campaign for the presidential election that ended on Sunday. However, just seven months ago, he said that Colombia can take advantage of the wind of La Guajira and its waterfalls to create new forms of energy and mine cryptocurrencies.
Can [los colombianos] become owners of these new forms of energy that we could link to the computing of cryptocurrencies. And we would have another world hand in hand with the Wayú communities, the coal workers of the Cesar region and the black communities of the Colombian Pacific coast.
Gustavo Petro, new president of Colombia.
Previously, Petro had presented his proposal on Twitter, in which he indicated the possibility that bitcoin mining replaces cocaine production.
In fact, your proposal is applauded by various members of the community. Even some people He says that mining bitcoin “is the only way out of the dollar crisis”.
Bitcoin mining to replace cocaine production in Colombia
Upon assuming power, Petro will immediately face a series of challenges, including growing citizen complaints about inequity and the rising cost of living in Colombia.
Are challenges that bitcoin is helping to face in other countries such as Venezuela and Argentinawhere the population has been suffering the consequences of high inflation and devaluation of their national currencies.
In its government programPetro also highlights a energy transition to face the climate change emergencywhich includes the proposal to stop oil exploration.
We will make Colombia move from a primary energy matrix, predominantly fossil, economically dependent on coal and oil, towards a diversified one, based on our renewable energy potential. These are the best energy sources to face climate change and strengthen the country’s capacities for the productive economy.
Gustavo Petro in his government program.
In that sense, bitcoin mining with wind turbines to take advantage of the wind of La Guajiraseems to fit very well with his proposal to diversify the potential of renewable energies that Colombia has.
In the Colombian Guajira, 98% of the country’s wind farm projects are built. By 2031 65 of these parks could come into operationwith more than 2,000 wind turbines producing 6,000 MW for the national interconnection system, as reflected media of that country.
Creating cleaner renewable energy sources for digital mining is a trend that is underway in the United States, as CriptoNoticias has previously reported.
To launch these types of initiatives, Colombia would be included among the countries that are exploring different ways to recover and reuse waste heat issued by the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) mining teams. With this, it has given way to the birth of a new movement called the green mining of Bitcoin.