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☆ How a Jack Dorsey-backed bitcoin miner uses a volcano in Kenya to turn on the lights in rural homes
  + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +9 min
watch nowHELL'S GATE, Kenya — Two-and-a-half hours northwest of Nairobi by car, a small group of bitcoin miners set up shop at the site of an extinct volcano near Hell's Gate National Park. "That doesn't happen without the bitcoin miners and us being globally distributed." MacKenzie SigalosWherever the operation, bitcoin mining is a volatile business, because so much of the economics depends on the price of the cryptocurrency. Before getting into bitcoin mining, he and his two co-founders, Philip Walton and Janet Maingi, spent years building internet connectivity infrastructure in rural and urban Africa. Demand from bitcoin miners on these semi-stranded assets is making renewables in Africa economically viable.
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☆ Snapchat is paying augmented-reality developers for silly, viral lenses, opening up a new way for creators to earn beyond branded effects
  + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Snapchat is launching a new fund for augmented-reality lens creators. Traditionally, AR creators have leaned on branded effects to make money. For years, augmented-reality creators who make amusing visual effects for Snapchat have relied on brand work to make money. It's also tested a program where AR creators could charge users for access to variations and upgrades of certain lenses. Other social-media platforms have also recently launched funding programs for AR creators.
Persons: Philip Walton, he'd, Walton, we're, Joseph Darko, It's, TikTok Organizations: Inc, Developer Locations: United States, India, Mexico
☆ Snapchat augmented-reality creators can now earn thousands of dollars for lenses that go viral
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Snapchat is launching a new fund for augmented-reality lens creators. Traditionally, AR creators have leaned on branded effects to make money. For years, augmented-reality creators who make amusing visual effects for Snapchat have relied on brand work to make money. A Snap spokesperson declined to share the total amount of funds available to AR creators, but said that "many creators" will earn rewards each month. It's also tested a program where AR creators could charge users for access to variations and upgrades of certain lenses.
Persons: Philip Walton, he'd, Walton, we're, Joseph Darko, It's, TikTok Organizations: Inc, Developer Locations: United States, India, Mexico
☆ Jack Dorsey’s Block backs bitcoin mining company that wants to bring 25-cent electricity to rural Africa
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +8 min
So in February, she began spitballing creative solutions with two friends, and the three of them landed on a sort-of counterintuitive idea: bitcoin mining. The new 533 kilowatt site in Kenya where 300 kilowatts will be used for bitcoin mining. We're not doing bitcoin for bitcoin," said the lead for bitcoin mining and wallet at Block, Thomas Templeton. Block is also working on a project to make bitcoin mining more distributed and efficient. Making the mining process more accessible has to do with more than just creating new bitcoin, according to Templeton.
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