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Currents 035: Steve Barbour on Mining Bitcoin with Methane

The Jim Rutt Show

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Oil Wells Produce a Lot of Sand on Surface

An oil well oftentimes will also bring some natural gas up. If it's not close to a pipe line, there's no really economically viable way to do anything with the gas. So they typically either vent it directly to the atmosphere or flare and burn it off. And so this the idea here, take something that's a waste and turning into something arguablyw we'll discuss this later,. which is minding a bit coin.

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