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Black Mountain considers using flare gas to mine cryptocurrency

CANNING Basin-focussed oil and gas hopeful Black Mountain Energy will use gas that would otherwise be flared from its Valhalla project to power mobile cryptocurrency servers.

Black Mountain considers using flare gas to mine cryptocurrency

In the US in basins where large amounts of associated gas is flared, mobile units are already in use, taking an otherwise unwanted energy source for energy-intense coin mining.  Just a few months ago,...

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