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💡 Waste to Wealth: How We’re Turning Trash into Bitcoin

What if your banana peel could help power the future of finance?

We’re proposing something bold: a biogas-powered Bitcoin mining facility—built right next to a landfill. It’s a new kind of circular economy project where food waste, flare gas, and even your backyard clippings are turned into clean energy, and then into digital currency.

♻️ The Problem with Waste

Every day, tons of food scraps, expired groceries, and agricultural leftovers are dumped into landfills. As they break down, they emit methane—a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than CO₂. Landfills try to burn it off (flaring), but that’s just waste on top of waste.

⚡ The Big Idea

Instead of letting that methane go up in smoke, we’ll capture it and combine it with biogas produced from a community biodigester. That gas will fuel generators to create electricity—powering Bitcoin mining rigs on site.

That means trash becomes gas, gas becomes energy, and energy becomes Bitcoin.

🏙️ Everyone Can Participate

Households, restaurants, grocery stores, and even towns can all contribute to the digester—by dropping off organic waste or signing up for a pickup program. And here’s the fun part:

You get paid in Bitcoin.
Your contributions are metered, and you’re rewarded based on how much energy your waste helps generate.

🌍 Why It Matters

  • Environmental Win – Less methane in the atmosphere, less landfill waste.

  • Local Power – A new kind of infrastructure that serves the people who feed it.

  • Digital Inclusion – Earn Bitcoin just by recycling your food scraps.

  • Sustainable Mining – No coal, no fossil fuels—just leftover lunch and potato peels.

🚀 What’s Next?

We’re starting with a pilot site at a local landfill and are actively looking for partners:
👷 Engineers, 🏛️ municipalities, 🌱 farmers, 🗑️ waste haulers, and 💡visionaries.

If you want to be part of this project—whether as a contributor, investor, or partner—stay tuned. The future of finance might just start at your compost bin.

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