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Photos El Salvador’s Bitcoin Moria

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Moria

The El Salvador government has announced it has installed 300 processors at this plant to “mine” cryptocurrency, and is using geothermal resources from the country’s volcanoes to run the computers that perform the complex calculations to verify transactions in Bitcoin, recently made legal tender in that country.

October 18, 2021

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Journalists take photos of some of the processors used for Bitcoin calculations inside a container at the La Geo Geothermal Power Plant in Berlin municipality, Usulutan department, El Salvador. | AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
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Some of the processors used for bitcoin calculations fill a container at the La Geo Geothermal Power Plant in Berlin municipality, Usulutan department, El Salvador. | AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
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A journalist takes a photo of the cooling systems at La Geo Geothermal Power Plant in Berlin municipality, Usulutan department, El Salvador. | AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
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A state worker closes a container holding processors used for Bitcoin calculations at the La Geo Geothermal Power Plant in Berlin municipality, Usulutan department, El Salvador. | AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
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A state employee works amid the cooling systems at La Geo Geothermal Power Plant in Berlin municipality, Usulutan department, El Salvador. | AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
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The La Geo Geothermal Power Plant operates in Berlin municipality, Usulutan department, El Salvador. | AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
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