不丹正在探索使用水电来挖掘和利用绿色加密货币的方法来增强其经济并创造就业机会

绿色加密货币是使用清洁能源资源（例如风能，水力或太阳能而不是化石燃料）开采的数字货币。

The Himalayan nation of Bhutan is exploring ways to mine and leverage green cryptocurrencies using hydropower to boost its economy and create jobs to reduce brain drain, the chief executive of its sovereign wealth fund said on Tuesday.

其主权财富基金的首席执行官周二表示，不丹的喜马拉雅国家正在探索使用水电来挖掘和利用绿色加密货币的方法来促进其经济并创造就业机会以减少脑力消耗。

Green cryptocurrencies are digital currencies mined using clean energy resources such as wind, hydro or solar power instead of fossil fuel.

绿色加密货币是使用清洁能源资源（例如风能，水力或太阳能而不是化石燃料）开采的数字货币。

Sandwiched between Asian giants India and China, Bhutan has earned millions of dollars in recent years by investing in some of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies and used some of its profit to pay government salaries for two years, two senior officials in Thimphu, the capital said.

首都说，不丹夹在亚洲巨人印度和中国之间，近年来通过投资一些世界上一些最受欢迎的加密货币来赚取数百万美元，并利用其一些利润来支付政府薪水两年，两名高级官员在蒂姆普（Thimphu）。

“We are a nation that runs 100 per cent on hydropower, and every digital coin we mine in Bhutan using hydropower offsets that coin which gets mined using fossil fuels,” said Ujjwal Deep Dahal, the CEO of the fund, Druk Holding and Investments Ltd.

“我们是一个在水力发电上运行100％的国家，我们在不丹使用水力发电偏移的每一个数字硬币，使用化石燃料来开采，”基金首席执行官Druk Holding and Investments Ltd. Ujjwal Deep Dahal说。

“So a coin mined in Bhutan will contribute to the green economy,” he told Reuters.

他告诉路透社：“因此，在不丹开采的硬币将为绿色经济做出贡献。”

Dahal said the fund, which controls Bhutan’s only power generation utility, began adding cryptocurrencies to its portfolio in 2019, seeing virtual currencies as a tactical investment and a gamechanger for the country.

达哈尔（Dahal）表示，控制不丹唯一的发电公用事业的基金开始在2019年增加加密货币，将虚拟货币视为战术投资和该国的gamechanger。

Bhutan is famed for its Gross National Happiness (GNH) index, an economic gauge that incorporates factors ignored by the usual measures of gross domestic product, such as recreation, emotional well-being and sustainability.

不丹以其总的国民幸福（GNH）指数而闻名，该指数总结了一项经济量规，其因素的总体措施（例如娱乐，情感福祉和可持续性）所忽略的因素。

It uses hydropower to operate energy-guzzling supercomputers to create digital assets that can be added to the blockchain.

它使用水力发电来操作耗能的超级计算机来创建可以添加到区块链中的数字资产。

Officials are exploring whether large conglomerates could buy Bhutan’s “green” coins to meet their targets on environmental, social and governance (ESG) norms.

官员们正在探索大型企业集团是否可以购买不丹的“绿色”硬币来满足其有关环境，社会和治理（ESG）规范的目标。

“Bitcoin has not just given more value to hydropower energy, it has also increased access to liquidity in foreign currency,” said Dahal, who added that training Bhutan’s young people in blockchain and AI techniques would fuel jobs.

达哈尔说：“比特币不仅给水力发电能源提供了更多的价值，还增加了外币流动性的机会。”

The nation of about 800,000 is battling an exodus of young, educated people. The government estimates that more than a tenth of its young people sought greener pastures between 2022 and 2023, taking unemployment in that age group to 16.5 per cent in 2024.

大约80万的国家正在与年轻，受过教育的人的出现作斗争。政府估计，在2022年至2023年之间，超过十分之一的年轻人寻求更绿色的牧场，使该年龄段的失业率在2024年达到16.5％。

Analysts said Bhutan’s ambitious plan to become the capital of green digital currency depends on expanding its hydropower generation to a potential of 33 gigawatts versus existing capacity of about 3.5 gigawatts.

分析人士说，不丹成为绿色数字货币首都的雄心勃勃的计划取决于将其水力发电的生成扩大到33吉瓦的潜力，而现有能力约为3.5吉瓦。

“We have plans to generate 15 gigawatts in the next 10 to 15 years,” Dahal added.

达哈尔补充说：“我们计划在未来10至15年内产生15吉瓦。”