The annual “Earth Hour” is an initiative of the world wildlife Fund. The aim of the campaign is to draw attention to the problems of our planet. During the campaign, WWF calls on all concerned to turn off their electricity for one hour. Turning off the lights is symbolic and not aimed at saving electricity. This year this mass environmental campaign decided to join the miners of cryptocurrency. Russian miners announced its own shares “Crypto Hour”, which by analogy with the “Hour of the Earth” all miners are encouraged to turn off their equipment for one hour on March 24 at 20:30 local time.
The initiator of the action made by Peter Dvoryankin, head of the International network of professional investors in digital assets “CryptoLife” and a member of the expert Council of the state Duma on legislative maintenance of development of financial technologies.
“The aim of the campaign is a call to the governments of Russia and foreign countries to create maps of “ecological mining” and to encourage the inflow of investment in projects of “ecological mining” in the territory of the Russian Federation. We also encourage you to create a system that allows you to use a produced in the mining process heat and to develop less energy-intensive technologies of the distributed registry”, — quotes Dvoryankina website 2miners.ru.
At the moment their participation in the promotion confirmed the miners from Russia, Japan, China, Canada, Georgia, Bulgaria and several other countries. Based on the estimates was only in the action of users, the organizers believe that only in Russia the action will save up to 1 mW/h, and around the world — more than 5 mW. But, since registration is not required, numbers may be higher.
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Russian miners will turn off their farms in the “Earth Hour”
Vyacheslav Larionov