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Bert de Groot, a Bitcoin business owner, walks through a large tulip greenhouse in Rotterdam

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Video. The Dutch tulip farmer swapping gas for heat from Bitcoin mining

Updated: 14/12/2022 - 15:49 GMT+1

A greenhouse in the Netherlands is using the heat generated from cryptocurrency mining to partially heat its large premises, saving on its gas bill.

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