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A Swiss consortium has announced the first Salvadoran photovoltaic plant for so-called cryptocurrency mining. The first stone of the complex has been laid in the department of Chalatenango, in the north of the Central American country. An initial investment of four million dollars is expected.
During the opening ceremony for the construction of the park, symbolized by the laying of the first stone, Josué López, who was presented as the leader of the investment group El Zonte Capital, explained that $150,000 in bitcoin was donated to support local entrepreneurship. The park will be located in the El Gavilán canton of Nueva Concepción.
The ambassador of El Salvador in the United States, Milena Mayorga, also participated in the inaugural act, who explained in her Twitter account that the park will have an initial investment of 4 million dollars, and, according to her, in a first stage of development of the project will reach 15 million dollars.
Along with Ambassador Mayorga were the American journalists and bitcoiners Stacy Herber and Max Keiser, administrators of the investment fund El Zonte Capital. According to the deputy of the Central American Parliament Cecilia Rivera, "Max and Stacy gave more than USD 150 thousand to the inhabitants of Nueva Concepción to support the enterprises through the Chivo Wallet." Chivo Wallet is an electronic wallet created by the government of El Salvador to make payments in dollars or Bitcoin.
A year ago, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approved the so-called Bitcoin Law, promoted by President Nayib Bukele. The approved legislation establishes, among other things, that bitcoin can be used in any transaction and in any title that natural or legal persons, public or private, require to carry out.
It is worth as a precedent in Central America of this project presented in El Salvador, Data Center, the first Digital Mining Center in Costa Rica , which since last year proposes its own mining equipment and rents that of third parties only with the condition of implementing renewable energies. , high quality fiber optics and with temperature and humidity monitoring. |
