Farming Biomass to Power Crypto Mining: Turning Fields Into Hashrate Bitcoin mining is often portrayed as an energy problem. In reality, it is an energy opportunity —especially for farmers, landowners, and rural entrepreneurs who can grow their own power. By combining biomass farming with on-site energy production, it’s possible to turn grass, hay, crop waste, and dedicated energy crops into electricity that directly powers crypto mining hardware. The result is a closed-loop system where land produces energy, energy produces Bitcoin, and Bitcoin finances the expansion of the farm. This isn’t theory. The numbers work—and they work well. Why Biomass + Crypto Mining Makes Sense Bitcoin mining converts electricity into a globally liquid digital commodity. Biomass farming converts sunlight, CO₂, and soil into stored chemical energy. When you combine the two, you eliminate the weakest link in mining economics: grid electricity prices . In high-cost electricity regions, mining 1 ...
When the Government Compels Corporate Labor: A Case That Looks a Lot Like Slavery If American law insists that a corporation is a “person,” then the government’s treatment of corporations raises a troubling question: Can the state compel a legal person to perform work without compensation? Under the Thirteenth Amendment, forcing any person to labor without pay is the very definition of slavery or involuntary servitude. In Bailey v. Alabama (1911), the Supreme Court struck down even indirect forms of coerced work. In Pollock v. Williams (1944), the Court reaffirmed that the Thirteenth Amendment forbids “all forms of compelled service” that a person cannot freely refuse. Corporations, however, are routinely compelled to perform extensive unpaid labor on behalf of the government. Businesses must collect payroll taxes under 26 U.S.C. §3102, process employee withholding, produce tax documentation, and often act as an arm of the IRS without a penny of compensation. In many states...