The low price of energy and the surplus production of Itaipu have generated in a small town in Paraguay a race for cryptocurrency mining — a computerized process that uses a lot of electricity.
Villarrica has 60,000 inhabitants and 30,000 computers dedicated to the new cryptomining business, which arrived in the city just two years ago.
In this video, reporter Mar Pichel of BBC News Mundo, the BBC’s Spanish-language news service, shows the opportunities and criticisms of this “fever”.
This report was originally published here.
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