Clean Integration

Understanding Bitcoin's Climate Impact with Margot Paez

Episode Summary

Margot Paez is a fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute specializing in renewable energy and environmental studies. She discusses the need for education in both the policy and energy sectors around the potential for Bitcoin mining to catalyze clean energy development.

Episode Notes

John Belizaire, CEO at Soluna Computing, sits down with Margot Paez, a fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute specializing in renewable energy and environmental studies, to discuss the need for education in both the policy and energy sectors around the potential for Bitcoin mining to catalyze clean energy development. 

Margot is also currently a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering at Georgia Tech with a focus on water resources and climate adaptation, as well as a graduate research assistant at the Georgia Water Resources Institute and a front-end developer.

Our team became acquainted with Margot when she moderated a panel on mining with renewables at the Bitcoin Conference in Miami earlier this year. 

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