>"With the debate on crypto mining’s energy use increasingly involving renewable sources, a rising number of UK farmers are reaching for a surprising reservoir of power - cow waste, aka dung - using this traditional, multipurpose resource to generate electricity for carbon-neutral crypto mining operations, therefore to diversify and up their revenues." "An increasingly heated debate surrounding the use of renewable energy for bitcoin mining has been further fueled by Elon Musk’s recent decision to suspend Tesla’s support for BTC payments over environmental concerns. The move was a part of the avalanche that caused bitcoin’s price to crash last month, but most recently, the entrepreneur said his auto business would resume supporting BTC payments once “there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend.” "