Cryptocurrency with a clear conscience.
Block and Blockstream have revealed their plans to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility. Block is the parent company of Square, Cash App, and Tidal as well as the cryptocurrency-focused Spiral and TBD. Blockstream, meanwhile, describes its mission as building the « crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin. » It will lead the construction of this new mining facility. Blockstream says that a « 3.8 Megawatt (MW) Tesla Solar PV array and 12 megawatt-hours (MWh) Tesla Megapack will power the open-source, solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the United States » that it expects to finish sometime this year.
