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1.媒體來源:
外媒 businessinsider
2.記者署名:
Polly Thompson
3.完整新聞標題:
Remote mountain Kingdom of Bhutan is operating secret, state-owned Bitcoin
mining facilities, report says
報導指出偏遠山區的不丹王國正在運作秘密的國有比特幣挖礦設施
4.完整新聞內文:
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.
報導指出偏遠山區的不丹王國正在運作秘密的國有比特幣挖礦設施
波莉湯普森 2023 年 11 月 25 日晚上 11:13 GMT+8
不丹帕羅塔克桑 Shutterstock
福布斯表示，它已經確定了不丹四個秘密的國有比特幣採礦設施的地點。
該出版物使用衛星圖像來識別這些地點。
薩爾瓦多是已知的唯一一個營運國有比特幣挖礦設施的國家。
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.
福布斯調查顯示，不丹王國秘密開發了一系列比特幣挖礦設施。
該出版物表示，利用 Planet Labs、Satellite Vu 和 Google Earth 的衛星圖像以及了
解不丹加密貨幣投資的消息來源，它發現了似乎是四個從未公開披露的加密貨幣採礦設施
的地點。
衛星影像顯示了隱藏在喜馬拉雅山國家茂密森林和山區中的長方形採礦單元和資料中心冷
卻系統。根據《富比士》報道，其他影像也顯示了從不丹水力發電廠到採礦場的大容量電
線和變壓器。
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
其中一處位於多楚拉山口附近，這是一個擁有108 座紀念神殿的神聖地區，而其他地點則
位於該國中部山區小鎮通薩、南部的達加納以及一個名為「教育城」的地區， 10億美元
的政府振興經濟項目失敗了。
《福布斯》稱，透過追蹤土方移動和建築施工情況，這些工地的施工工作可能會在 2020
年開始。
多楚拉山口（Dochula Pass）是不丹的山口，位於廷布（Thimphu）到普那卡（Punakha）
的路上
多楚拉山口是不丹的山口，位於從廷佈到普那卡的道路上，附近發現了一個採礦設施。
大眾圖片/蓋蒂
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.
比特幣挖礦是一個能源密集型過程，每年消耗約 91 太瓦時的電力—比許多國家都多，
近年來不丹的加密貨幣挖礦業務導致該國的能源進口和使用量猛增。該國歷來將過剩的水
力發電出售給印度，2023 年購買了價值 2,070 萬美元的電力。
不丹國王吉格梅·凱薩爾·納姆吉爾·旺楚克(Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck) 長期
以來一直對加密貨幣很著迷，他希望加密貨幣能夠幫助防止這個人口不到80 萬、生物多
樣性豐富的偏遠山區國家陷入經濟危機。
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.
被稱為「最後的香格里拉」的不丹在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情期間遭受了旅遊業衰退的
困擾，同時還面臨著青年失業率上升和移民率飆升引發的人才流失問題。
薩爾瓦多是目前世界上唯一已知營運國有加密礦場的國家。
5.完整新聞連結 (或短網址)不可用YAHOO、LINE、MSN等轉載媒體:
https://reurl.cc/x6q31Z
6.備註:
世界上碳排量最少的環保比特幣終於姍姍來遲了
佛祖來給你的比特幣錢包好好加持一下~
https://imgur.com/uPszdC6
10的12次方TWh為太瓦時(1度電為10的3次方/千瓦時)