As politician, he will do everything he can do and legally accepted in his nation to get as many votes as possible from citizens in the nation. You can not trust any politician because they sell promise, dream, hope to their citizens but in reality, they never complete all of their promised activities after they get elected.

Changing governments, regulations are hard and need a lot of time, efforts from people in each nation. It won't be achieved after a night, day or week and we must be realistic that to gain it, people as citizens must create enough pressure on governments.

To do this, we must have more education about Bitcoin, Bitcoin mining to enlighten people about benefit of Bitcoin against fiat currency inflation and Bitcoin mining is not dirty, not environmental harmful like governments try to say.

https://bitcoincleanup.com/
https://endthefud.org/energy
Reports from Bitcoin Mining Council can help them to have more knowledge and information about Bitcoin mining network too.
H1 2023 report from BMC.

The candidate's statements before the elections do not necessarily mean that he will adhere to them, especially on marginal issues such as Bitcoin mining, which may need legal amendments in some countries, and may not require more than one company that wants to enter the field in other countries due to the ease of legal legislation. Bitcoin mining using surplus natural gas from oil production fields may lead to an economic benefit as it reduces waste, provides job opportunities, increases taxes, with the possibility that the state will use the Bitcoin that was generated as a reserve in the central bank or in an investment fund, but it is nothing more than part of the ideas to improve GDP is not something the presidential candidate will defend if he wins the election.

Whatever these politicians say hopefully they do that for their own sake and betterment of their country.
They won't just do it because it's on trend and seems popular these days and not just for politicking.
Because how many times did we see politicians use everything, every topic that they can to support for votes.

I assume that the intention of this presidential hopeful is to convert associated petroleum gas (APG) to power energy. APG are waste from oil drilling and it is the number one cause of gas flaring which affects the environment negatively. The use of APG will reduce pollution and save costs. I am also glad that OP included that people should be allowed to choose between fiat and cryptocurrencies.


Politicians cannot be trusted. They usually have very attractive manifestos which they often abandon after winning elections. Maybe he has good intentions just like Nayib Bukele or it could also be a political stunt to get the votes of crypto-friendly Argentines. We have to wait till November 19th to know who will win between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei.

Most of the researches carried out to investigate the effect of bitcoin mining on the environment are not credible. They were done with the intention to show bitcoin in a negative light. They were lopsided and filled with bias and attacks. The power consumption rate of bitcoin mining activities is overestimated to suit their lies but it is good to know that miners are seeking for green alternatives.

People should always look at politicians with some doubts and must do their due diligence before they decide whether one is good for them in the long run. Just because one is interested with Bitcoin does not mean that people should vote for him. Now, having said that, at least we should be glad that a growing number of influential people are using the platform available to them that can somehow promote Bitcoin in a good light. I am in agreement that using natural gas for mining Bitcoin can be a good idea, am just hoping that one the candidate can win he will really pursue the proposition and will not just forget this on the road.

Individual Perspective
Hmm, When it comes to the energy, I'm not sure OP in which region you are focusing on Natural Gas, In my country the most efficient way is solar energy because I'm living in the Southern part of Pakistan Weather is more likely clear, Ventilation can be considered as a problem but there some cheap solution for that as well.

Natural Gas can be the solution for countries where the availability and costs are not sky-high in countries where they mostly import Gas this can be one of the most expensive energy. Bitcoin Mining is getting much attraction but seems like its already a late idea because there are giants with immense hash power, Only 7% supply remains, and the competition rate is too high as well, Individual mining cant be considered, In pools the profitability most of the time remains low.

Political Perspective
As politicians the statements may vary from time to time, the thing to consider here is how far they are dedicated to it, because on time they may find it unacceptable. The environmental disaster narrative is dead, Bitcoin is environment friendly hehe, ateast comparing to those electric cars.

if it was cost effective to put a pipeline from the flare chimney to a facility to then burn that dirty gas to make electric.. they would. and then cable that to a nearby village/town or power their own facility..
if it was cost effective to put a pipeline from the flare chimney to small generator at the chminey to then burn that dirty gas to make electric.. they would. and then cable that to a nearby village/town or power their own facility..

however they are not even using this gas to power their own site.. so there are cost implications..
its basically cost of generator vs joules of gas.. if that waste gas could even cover just the price of the generator. then they would have done it before

this is why they are trialling it with a FEW(not many presently) flare gas locations to see how much coin they can generate to see if after selling coin it can make them in a net profit compared to just buying carbon credits to offset their environmental impact.

if they could convert gas to electric and charge a local village reasonable electric.. they would have done that ages ago.. but have not because that was not cost effective compared to other grid electric costs

so if.. BIG IF.. they can earn enough sats to balance out the carbon credit cost/build cost. then yes they will expand and many nations will copy.. but those numbers are not in yet

This isn't the first time a politician proposes the government to start mining BTC, and it certainly will not be the last, but is there any track record of any politician actually launching such project? It's easy to make proposals and promises, and it can be quite hard to deliver even something as simple as a working Bitcoin mining operation owned or subsidized by the government.

I believe we have loads of untapped resources both on land and sub-surface that can cater for the whole of humanity and more, we are yet to truly harness our resources, produced Natural gas is just one of them, but I can tell you for a sure fact that loads of countries are yet to tap into it to birth productivity.

We can setup Mining rigs in various parts of the world if only we all can adopt the technology, for countries with Nuclear powere plant, they are at more advantaged positions.