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1.媒体来源:
外媒 businessinsider
2.记者署名:
Polly Thompson
3.完整新闻标题:
Remote mountain Kingdom of Bhutan is operating secret, state-owned Bitcoin
mining facilities, report says
报导指出偏远山区的不丹王国正在运作秘密的国有比特币挖矿设施
4.完整新闻内文:
Remote mountain Kingdom of Bhutan is operating secret, state-owned Bitcoin
mining facilities, report says
Polly Thompson Nov 25, 2023, 11:13 PM GMT+8
Paro Taktsang, Bhutan Shutterstock
Forbes said it had identified the sites of four secret, state-owned Bitcoin
mining facilities in Bhutan.
The publication used satellite imagery to identify the sites.
El Salvador is the only other country known to operate state-owned Bitcoin
mining facilities.
报导指出偏远山区的不丹王国正在运作秘密的国有比特币挖矿设施
波莉汤普森 2023 年 11 月 25 日晚上 11:13 GMT+8
不丹帕罗塔克桑 Shutterstock
福布斯表示，它已经确定了不丹四个秘密的国有比特币采矿设施的地点。
该出版物使用卫星图像来识别这些地点。
萨尔瓦多是已知的唯一一个营运国有比特币挖矿设施的国家。
The Kingdom of Bhutan has secretly developed a series of bitcoin mining
facilities, a Forbes investigation has revealed.
Using satellite imagery from Planet Labs, Satellite Vu, and Google Earth, as
well as sources with knowledge of Bhutan's crypto investments, the
publication said it found the sites of what appear to be four crypto-mining
facilities that have never been publicly disclosed.
The satellite images reveal long, rectangular mining units and data center
cooling systems hidden amongst dense forests and mountainous terrain across
the Himalayan country. Other images also show high-capacity power lines and
transformers running from Bhutan's hydroelectric plants to the mining sites,
Forbes reported.
福布斯调查显示，不丹王国秘密开发了一系列比特币挖矿设施。
该出版物表示，利用 Planet Labs、Satellite Vu 和 Google Earth 的卫星图像以及了
解不丹加密货币投资的消息来源，它发现了似乎是四个从未公开披露的加密货币采矿设施
的地点。
卫星影像显示了隐藏在喜马拉雅山国家茂密森林和山区中的长方形采矿单元和资料中心冷
却系统。根据《富比士》报道，其他影像也显示了从不丹水力发电厂到采矿场的大容量电
线和变压器。
One site was located near Dochula Pass, a sacred area that has 108 memorial
shrines, while the others were identified in Trongsa, a mountainous town in
the center of the country, Dagana in the south, and an area called "Education
City," a failed $1 billion government project to revive the economy.
By tracking earth-moving and building construction, Forbes said that work at
the sites likely began in 2020.
The Dochula Pass is a Bhutanese mountain pass located on the road from
Thimphu to Punakha, near where one of the mining facilities has been
discovered. VW Pics / Getty
其中一处位于多楚拉山口附近，这是一个拥有108 座纪念神殿的神圣地区，而其他地点则
位于该国中部山区小镇通萨、南部的达加纳以及一个名为“教育城”的地区， 10亿美元
的政府振兴经济项目失败了。
《福布斯》称，透过追踪土方移动和建筑施工情况，这些工地的施工工作可能会在 2020
年开始。
多楚拉山口（Dochula Pass）是不丹的山口，位于廷布（Thimphu）到普那卡（Punakha）
的路上
多楚拉山口是不丹的山口，位于从廷布到普那卡的道路上，附近发现了一个采矿设施。
大众图片/盖蒂
Bitcoin mining is an energy-intensive process that consumes around 91
terawatt-hours of electricity annually — more than many countries, and
Bhutan's crypto-mining operations have seen the country's energy imports and
usage soar in recent years. The kingdom, which has historically sold its
surplus of hydropower to India, purchased $20.7 million worth of electricity
in 2023.
Bhutan's monarch, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, has long held a
fascination with the cryptocurrency, and he hopes that it will help prevent
the remote, bio-diverse mountain nation of less than 800,000 people from
falling into an economic crisis.
比特币挖矿是一个能源密集型过程，每年消耗约 91 太瓦时的电力—比许多国家都多，
近年来不丹的加密货币挖矿业务导致该国的能源进口和使用量猛增。该国历来将过剩的水
力发电出售给印度，2023 年购买了价值 2,070 万美元的电力。
不丹国王吉格梅·凯萨尔·纳姆吉尔·旺楚克(Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck) 长期
以来一直对加密货币很着迷，他希望加密货币能够帮助防止这个人口不到80 万、生物多
样性丰富的偏远山区国家陷入经济危机。
Bhutan – which has been dubbed the "The Last Shangri-la" - suffered from
declining tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic, while it also faces rising
youth unemployment and a brain drain triggered by surging rates of emigration.
El Salvador is currently the only country in the world known to run
state-owned crypto mines.
被称为“最后的香格里拉”的不丹在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情期间遭受了旅游业衰退的
困扰，同时还面临着青年失业率上升和移民率飙升引发的人才流失问题。
萨尔瓦多是目前世界上唯一已知营运国有加密矿场的国家。
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6.备注:
世界上碳排量最少的环保比特币终于姗姗来迟了
佛祖来给你的比特币钱包好好加持一下~
https://imgur.com/uPszdC6
10的12次方TWh为太瓦时(1度电为10的3次方/千瓦时)