Bitcoin fracking turns waste gas to digital gold in Bakken oil field
An oil well pad near Sidney, Mont., is seen in June 2021. The structures at right contain a Bitcoin mining operation powered by excess natural gas produced as a result of oil extraction on the site. (Eric Dietrich/Montana Free Press)
SIDNEY, Mont. — On a sun-baked oil pad not too far from the North Dakota border, the iconic infrastructure of the Bakken oil field towers over pink gravel, pumpjacks pulling energy-packed hydrocarbons from thousands of feet deep beneath the eastern Montana prairie. ...
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