比特幣採礦：用於數字經濟的綠色解決方案

長期以來，那些未能掌握更廣泛效用的人，比特幣採礦一直被批評為“浪費”。儘管許多人急於讚美股份證明（POS）系統，但工作證明（POW）採礦卻為環境效益帶來了至關重要且經常被忽視的環境利益。

Bitcoin mining has long been criticized as “wasteful” by those who fail to grasp its broader utility. While many rush to praise proof-of-stake (PoS) systems, proof-of-work (PoW) mining offers a crucial and often overlooked environmental benefit. Properly deployed, Bitcoin mining doesn’t just consume energy—it captures and monetizes energy that would otherwise be wasted.

長期以來，那些未能掌握更廣泛效用的人，比特幣採礦一直被批評為“浪費”。儘管許多人急於讚美股份證明（POS）系統，但工作證明（POW）採礦卻為環境效益帶來了至關重要且經常被忽視的環境利益。比特幣採礦適當地部署，不僅消耗能量，還可以捕獲並貨幣化否則會浪費的能量。

Flaring from oil fields, methane from landfills and agricultural operations, and stranded gas in remote locations have been unavoidable inefficiencies of the energy industry for generations. Bitcoin mining has transformed these emissions into pure opportunities to create and benefit from productive economic value while reducing their environmental impact. Before the advent of a PoW monetary network, there was no scalable way to repurpose this energy.

幾代人不可避免地從油田，垃圾填埋場和農業運營中的甲烷以及在偏遠地區滯留的天然氣燃燒的天然氣不可避免地是無法避免的。比特幣採礦將這些排放轉變為純粹的機會，從而從生產性經濟價值中受益，同時減少環境影響。在POW貨幣網絡出現之前，沒有可擴展的方法來重新利用這種能量。

Now, Bitcoin mining provides a financial incentive to harness it.

現在，比特幣採礦提供了利用它的經濟激勵。

Methane: From waste to energy

甲烷：從廢物到能量

Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, with more than 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Yet, traditional energy infrastructure struggles to monetize small, dispersed methane sources, making mitigation financially and logistically unfeasible. Bitcoin mining changes this dynamic by allowing modular operations to be deployed directly at methane-emitting sites—landfills, farms, and oil drilling operations—where it can be burned cleanly to generate electricity for mining rather than vented or flared into the atmosphere.

甲烷是最有效的溫室氣體之一，在20年內，二氧化碳的變暖潛力是80倍以上。然而，傳統的能源基礎設施努力通過少量分散的甲烷來源獲利，從而在經濟上和後勤上不可行。比特幣挖掘通過允許模塊化操作直接在甲烷發射地點（陸菲爾，農場和油鑽探操作）中部署來改變這種動態，在這種情況下，它可以乾淨地燃燒以發電以進行採礦，而不是發洩或膨脹進入大氣。

This is not theoretical. Companies like Crusoe Energy and Nodal Power have already demonstrated how Bitcoin mining can turn methane waste into a revenue stream while reducing emissions.

這不是理論上的。 Crusoe Energy和Nodal Power等公司已經證明了比特幣採礦如何將甲烷廢物變成收入流，同時減少排放。

According to research published in Science Direct, “This integration not only proposes a method to enhance landfill sustainability but also introduces a potential economic boost for landfill operations currently venting or flaring methane, offering them an alternative revenue source through the global bitcoin market. Such an approach is particularly pertinent in regions where legal mandates require gas flaring, suggesting that Bitcoin mining could improve the financial feasibility, potentially accelerating the development of landfill gas capture infrastructure and reducing the tax burden on local residents and businesses.”

根據《科學直接》上發表的研究：“這種整合不僅提出了一種增強垃圾填埋場可持續性的方法，而且還引入了當前正在排氣或燃燒甲烷的垃圾填埋場的潛在經濟增強，從而通過全球比特幣市場為它們提供了替代的收入來源。這種方法在法律要求需要天然氣的地區特別相關，這表明比特幣採礦可以提高財務可行性，可能加速垃圾填埋氣捕獲基礎設施的發展並減輕當地居民和企業的稅收負擔。”

Disrupting centralized data centers: A net energy benefit

破壞集中數據中心：淨能源福利

Beyond its direct energy applications, Bitcoin mining has the potential to improve digital infrastructure efficiency. Today, centralized payment networks and hyperscale data centers—run by companies like Visa (NASDAQ: V), Mastercard (NASDAQ: MA), and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL)—consume enormous amounts of energy for transaction processing, data storage, and now things like artificial intelligence (AI) model training. These centralized hubs require not just energy-intensive computation but also cooling, redundancy, and security systems that increase their carbon footprint exponentially because they do not benefit from the inherent security of a distributed compute model.

除了直接的能源應用外，比特幣採礦還具有提高數字基礎設施效率的潛力。如今，集中的支付網絡和高度數據中心 - 由Visa（NASDAQ：V），MasterCard（NASDAQ：MA）和Google（NASDAQ：GOOGL）等公司進行籌款 - 可用於交易，數據存儲以及現在的大量能源諸如人工智能（AI）模型培訓之類的東西。這些集中式樞紐不僅需要能源密集型計算，還需要冷卻，冗餘和安全系統，以呈指數級增加其碳足跡，因為它們不能從分佈式計算模型的固有安全性中受益。

A scalable PoW blockchain could replace many of these inefficient legacy systems, offering a more energy-effective alternative that relies on globally distributed mining power rather than monolithic data centers. Additionally, the increasing demand for AI infrastructure, which treats graphics processing unit (GPU) computation as a commodity much like Bitcoin treats hash power, presents opportunities for synergy. The interplay between these technologies could optimize both systems, from hardware-level efficiency to Bitcoin micropayments securing high-integrity AI training data and allowing micropayment-based locks on various types of data both at the consumer level for the sake of commerce and deep in the libraries for the sake of security.

可擴展的POW區塊鏈可以取代許多這些效率低下的舊系統，從而提供更依賴於全球分佈的採礦能力而不是單片數據中心的更富效的替代方案。此外，對AI基礎架構的需求不斷增長，該基礎架構將圖形處理單元（GPU）計算視為一種商品，就像比特幣對待哈希功率一樣，為協同作用提供了機會。這些技術之間的相互作用可以優化這兩種系統，從硬件級效率到比特幣微付款，以確保高融合性AI培訓數據並允許基於微付款的各種類型的數據鎖在消費者層面上，以便為了商業而深入為了安全起見。

Bitcoin and Grid Stability: The energy buyer of last resort

比特幣和電網穩定性：最後的能源購買者

Energy curtailment agreements allow power companies to expand capacity without overbuilding for peak demand. Traditionally, utilities must either produce excess power during off-peak hours, throttle renewable sources like wind and solar to avoid grid congestion or shed load into wasteful, expensive, and ecologically dirty “peaker plants” which act as energy dumps at the edges of the grid.

節能協議允許電力公司擴大產能，而無需為高峰需求建立過度建設。傳統上，公用事業必須在非高峰時段產生過多的動力，油門可再生能源（如風能和太陽能），以避免網格充血，或者將負載變成浪費，昂貴且在生態上骯髒的“峰值植物”，它們在能量轉儲的邊緣，在網格。

Bitcoin mining uniquely offers a solution to this problem by acting as an extremely elastic energy consumer when strategically placed at critical points in the grid infrastructure.

比特幣採礦獨特地通過策略性地放置在網格基礎設施的關鍵點時，通過充當極其彈性的消費者來解決這個問題。

Unlike traditional data centers or industrial consumers that require a constant supply, Bitcoin miners can instantly scale operations up or down in response to grid conditions. This dynamic load balancing stabilizes power grids, allowing utilities to sell excess energy when demand is low while maintaining reliability during peak usage and pushing risk onto competing companies rather than small consumers or taxpayers.

與需要持續供應的傳統數據中心或工業消費者不同，比特幣礦工可以立即響應網格條件來向上或向下擴展操作。這種動態的負載平衡可以穩定電網，使公用事業在需求較低時出售過多的能源，同時在高峰使用期間保持可靠性，並將風險推向競爭的公司，而不是小型消費者或納稅人。

The Texas ERCOT grid, for example, has repeatedly demonstrated how Bitcoin mining can prevent power wastage and ensure efficient grid operations.

例如，德克薩斯州ERCOT網格反复證明了比特幣採礦如何防止浪費並確保有效的網格操作。

In a critical report from Husch Blackwell in 2022, they expressed doubts on Bitcoin mining’s viability due to their experience in understanding the needs of traditional data centers as unreliable partners from grid shedding, but according to a recent report from the Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI,) the data shows that Bitcoin mining has become a critical part of Texas’ ability to scale up the electrical grid on pace with the needs of their population growth and saved Texas taxpayers close to $20 Billion vs. using traditional, and highly polluting peaker plants.

在2022年，赫斯克·布萊克威爾（Husch Blackwell）的一份重要報告中，他們對比特幣礦業的生存能力表達了懷疑，因為他們在理解傳統數據中心的需求方面是網格脫落的不可靠合作夥伴的經驗，但是根據數字資產研究所的最新報告（Dari ，）數據表明，比特幣採礦已成為德克薩斯州按照人口增長的需求擴大電網的能力的關鍵部分，並節省了得克薩斯州的納稅人將近200億美元。

These Bitcoin-based, peak-shedding techniques are much lower risk,

這些基於比特幣的峰值脫水技術的風險要低得多，