Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, floated an unconventional idea for sustainable Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining on Monday, which is to route electricity from piezoelectric floor tiles into the network.
Cameron Winklevoss Thinks Footsteps Could Power Bitcoin Mining
“This energy should be converted into Bitcoin mining. Every step helps audit and secure the blockchain. And eventually one step will win the block reward,” he wrote on X.
He argued that turning footsteps into hashes would, in theory, help validate transactions and secure the network. The Bitcoin protocol pays miners a block reward for successfully adding new blocks to the chain under its proof-of-work system.