Cryptomatoes, Or Tomatoes Raised By Harvesting Heat From Cryptomining, Are A Real Thing
What would you do if you would have a relatively big crypto exchanging and mining operation? Not with the money, because that's quite obvious, but with all that excess heat?
Well, the co-founder of a Czech exchange, NakamotoX, Kamil Breicha, thought to grow tomatoes. And by looking at his first crop, it does seems the business model was validated:
That's a screenshot of his Twitter timeline and, as you would imagine, the image was retweeted more than one thousand times.
The success of this test will go a long way proving that, with the right attitude, the so called "environmental damage" of cryptos can be largely alleviated.
Breicha said at some point that he even thought about growing marijuana, but the "legislative hurdles" would have been too much.
Well, I'm absolutely ok with tomatoes, I say! Every time I'll make a salad, I will try to guess which helped in the process:
"Was a tiny little Bitcoin generating the heat for this salad? Or probably a decent Litecoin? Hmm, nope, this one tastes just like Ethereum..."
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Unbelievable! Is this real?
Apparently, yes. Didn't see it with my own eyes, I just share the photo from Twitter.
Conversation (in my head) between reporter and Brejcha:
Reporter: "What would you say to all your critics that you're wasting precious energy and only heating up the environment with all this unnecessary crypto-mining?"
Brejcha: "Well, I'm not sure who all is saying that, but we really like cherry tomatoes for eating and topping salads, so we've got a greenhouse where the excess heat goes. The tomatoes are doing quite well, by the way."
Reporter: "That's...um...uh...remarkable."
Brejcha: "Here, would you like to try one? They're really delicious."
Reporter: "Whoa! That's amazing. Zesty, yet..."
Brejcha: "With a hint of STEEM? We thought that would be a nice touch."
Let the era of crypto-crops begin!
Very good @glenalbrethsen. 😂 😁 😂
Such extensions to the uses of crypto mining farms might help counter the critic of cryptos which states that mining is a waste of energy. Thanks for sharing the news about this nice idea, @dragosroua :)
Cryptomatoes!
That's an amazing Idea,
What a creative mind he have.
I'm already seeing the future here, imagine powering hydroponic plantations in Mars while mining the new Mars official cryptocurrency!
Now that's a whole new game! I reckon the value of cryptos mined on Mars might be a little bit lower than on Earth. Gravity, you know... :))
Aside from getting the obvious from crypto currencies which is money, one can also get tomatoes from it. This is quite interesting, with these alot of other green house products can be cultivated
Hahahahahaaaa, very cool combintion, Cryptomining + Tomatoes = agriculture of the future!
I first heard about this on @taskmaster's blog yesterday and I didn't know if he was joking or not. It sounded like a joke to me. I tot bitcoin was virtual currency , how come does mining it give out heat which is used in the production of cryptomatoes.
Very funny last paragraph @dragosroua. I love the sentiment behind this though. Hope more peopl follow his lead. It's inspired! 😊
That's an amazing Idea