A Garnett man has filed an application for a special use permit with Anderson County to authorize his cryptocurrency mining facility, located on northwest Missouri Road, along the county’s zoning parameters. Milton Yoder filed the application for the permit to allow the commercial business location on land zoned A-1 agriculture.
He’s been in business for about a month with a stand-alone solar power source partially completed. Yoder’s application specifies the addition of 72-74 solar panels which would provide off-grid power to run the computers and cool the facilities used for the digital mining operation – which instead of breaking actual ground “mines” for digital “coins” by executing a continual and extensive mathematical barrage of computations seeking to unlock a strongbox location that only exists in computational terms.
Confused? You’re not alone. Understandable. Yoder explains that cryptocurrency mining involves using specialized computers to solve complex mathematical problems that secure and verify transactions on blockchain networks, like the one for Dogecoin, earning digital coins as rewards.
