不丹希望以新的方式使用水力发电来促进国民经济

这项倡议不是喜马拉雅国家对加密货币的首次冒险，因为它已经从相关投资中赚了数百万美元。

Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom known for its Gross National Happiness Index, is also setting its sights on becoming a green digital currency leader.

不丹，以其总体幸福指数而闻名的喜马拉雅王国，也将目光投向了成为绿色的数字货币领导者。

This initiative is part of a broader strategy to create jobs and keep more talent in the country, which is suffering from a massive drain of young and educated professionals.

这项倡议是创造就业机会并保持更多人才的更广泛战略的一部分，该战略遭受了年轻和受过教育的专业人士的大量损失。

"We are a nation that runs 100% on hydropower. And every digital coin we mine in Bhutan using hydropower offsets that coin which gets mined using fossil fuels,” said Ujjwal Deep Dahal, CEO of the fund Druk Holding and Investments Ltd., at the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit in September.

“我们是一个在水力发电上运行100％的国家。以及我们在不丹使用的每种数字硬币都使用使用化石燃料来开采的水力发电，”基金Druk Holding and Investments Ltd.的首席执行官Ujjwal Deep Dahal说，在世界经济论坛的9月份在9月份的可持续性Forum Forum Formable Ltd。

The goal is to expand its current capacity of 3.5 gigawatts to 15 gigawatts within 15 years, which would put it close to half of what some analysts predict would be necessary to meet the country’s goal.

目的是将目前的3.5吉瓦人的能力扩大到15年内的15吉瓦，这将使它接近某些分析师预测的要实现该国目标所需的一半。

The initiative comes as stakeholders look for more solutions to reduce the digital currency’s potential for environmental damage.

该计划是随着利益相关者寻求更多解决方案来减少数字货币对环境损害的潜力的发展。

It’s an understatement to say that crypto assets are energy-hungry—it would take three years for the average person in a country such as Ghana or Pakistan to use as much electricity as a single bitcoin transaction does, per the International Monetary Fund.

据说，加密资产是渴望能源的，这是一种轻描淡写的说法 - 根据国际货币基金，加纳或巴基斯坦等国家的普通人需要三年的时间才能使用与单个比特币交易一样多的电力。

Because it uses so much energy, digital currency can strain area grids—regardless of power source—creating more risk for power outages.

由于它使用了如此多的能源，因此数字货币可以将面积网格（无电源的不额外）限制，从而产生了更多的停电风险。

During extreme weather events like heat waves, this can be life-threatening, which is all the more concerning given that extreme conditions have grown more frequent and severe due to the accelerated rising of global temperatures fueled by pollution from dirty energy.

在热浪等极端天气事件中，这可能是威胁生命的，这更令人担忧，因为由于肮脏能量受到污染的污染，由于极端条件变得更加频繁和严重。

Per United Nations University, the global bitcoin mining carbon footprint equals burning 84 billion pounds of coal, which would take planting 3.9 billion trees to offset. The water waste is just as bad, as the industry uses enough to fill over 660,000 Olympic-sized pools.

根据联合国大学，全球比特币采矿碳足迹等于燃烧840亿磅的煤炭，这将需要种植39亿棵树才能抵消。水垃圾也是如此糟糕，因为该行业用来填充超过660,000个奥林匹克大小的游泳池。

While encouraging more renewable power use could be enough for some miners to limit planet-warming pollution from the sector, issuing more tax regulations may also help.

尽管鼓励更多可再生能源使用可能足以让某些矿工限制该行业的污染，但发出更多的税收法规也可能有所帮助。

IMF data projects that a direct corrective tax of $0.047 per kilowatt-hour could influence miners to make more efforts to reduce pollution.

国际货币基金组织的数据项目直接纠正税为每千瓦时0.047美元，可能会影响矿工，以减少污染。

Like the nation of Bhutan, others are following the green crypto wave. The GRASS coin—short for Green Asset Solutions and Sustainability—funds eco-friendly projects. Plus, there are crypto cards that use significantly less energy than traditional ones.

像不丹国家一样，其他人也跟随绿色加密浪潮。 Grass Coin（用于绿色资产解决方案和可持续性的股份）资金友好的项目。另外，有些加密卡比传统卡使用明显少得多。