Does anyone have any contacts in El Salvador? I'm doing a story about the environmental and social impacts of bitcoin mining there.
"Taylor of the Seneca Lake Guardian said bitcoin mines are "spreading across the country like a cancer," adding that "slick crypto corporations" are popping up in rural underserved communities with promises of job creation and earnings." But pointing to the fact that the Greenidge bitcoin mine employed 48 people full-time in 2022 — about as many as in a typical McDonald's — she said experience shows that such claims "fall short."