{"id":44101,"date":"2021-06-10T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44101"},"modified":"2025-08-31T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:25:51","slug":"british-farmer-uses-manure-to-mine-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/british-farmer-uses-manure-to-mine-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"British farmer uses manure to mine Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer from Denbighshire in Britain, Philip Hughes, is mining cryptocurrency using electricity generated from processing cow manure. The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57199405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using an anaerobic digestion plant, the gas released from waste decomposition is burned and converted into electricity. A third of the electricity generated is used to power the GPUs. The remainder goes to the farm&#8217;s own needs.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Hughes also rents out renewable energy sources. The bulk of the mining hardware on the farm belongs to Easy Crypto Hunter&#8217;s manager Josh Riddett. According to him, each installation is equipped with &#8220;a multitude of powerful computer graphics cards&#8221; with a total value of around \u00a318,000 (over $25,000).<\/p>\n<p>Hughes described his earnings from mining Ethereum as &#8220;good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It largely depends on what day you ask that question,&#8221; he added, pointing to the coin&#8217;s volatility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If the asset&#8217;s price falls significantly, the farmer plans to direct the computing power of the equipment to other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Mining cryptocurrencies on renewable energy has become a trend in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, payments company Square and infrastructure startup Blockstream announced a joint project to create a demonstration <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/square-to-invest-5-million-in-eco-friendly-bitcoin-mining-startup-blockstream\">center for solar-powered Bitcoin mining<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Marathon Digital Holdings announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/marathon-to-build-a-green-data-center-for-bitcoin-mining\">construction of a &#8216;green&#8217; data centre in Texas<\/a> with a capacity of 300 MW.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed examination of why the negative environmental impact of Bitcoin mining is exaggerated can be read in ForkLog:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"veXJ99UY4m\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/much-ado-about-nothing-why-bitcoins-environmental-impact-is-exaggerated\">Much ado about nothing: why the problem of Bitcoin&#8217;s environmental impact is exaggerated<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abMuch ado about nothing: why the problem of Bitcoin's environmental impact is exaggerated\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/mnogo-shuma-iz-nichego-pochemu-problema-vliyaniya-bitkoina-na-ekologiyu-preuvelichena\/embed#?secret=tdpVbNxVrf#?secret=veXJ99UY4m\" data-secret=\"veXJ99UY4m\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer from Denbighshire in Britain, Philip Hughes, is mining cryptocurrency using electricity generated from processing cow manure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,46,810],"class_list":["post-44101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ethereum","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44103,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44101\/revisions\/44103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}