One of the world's largest producers of carbon emissions, the Russian gas giant Gazprom aims to reduce its carbon footprint by providing its flare gas for Bitcoin mining.
The Russian government continues establishing links with major players in the cryptocurrency mining industry despite staying skeptical about legalizing cryptocurrency trading and payments.Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom Neft has entered into a partnership with BitRiver, the largest crypto mining colocation services supplier in Russia providing hosting services for major crypto mining operations. Gazprom will provide BitRiver's partner data centers with electricity generated from the associated petroleum gas, the companies officially announced on June 16.As part of the collaboration, BitRiver will be developing digital infrastructure based on oil fields of Gazprom to provide crypto mining services from the flare gas.Gazprom first Deputy CEO Vadim Yakovlev emphasized that the business model of Gazprom itself doesn’t envision work with digital assets.