El Salvador has mined 475 Bitcoins in three years using geothermal energy

EL Salvador - the world's first economy to fully adopt Bitcoin as legal tender - has successfully mined almost 500 Bitcoins using clean energy, its government has reported.

The nation's governmental 'Bitcoin Office' says the country now holds 5,750 Bitcoins after adding 474 by mining through 'green energy' provided by a geothermal power plant generated from the 1,593m Tepaca volcano.

Based on current prices, the mined Bitcoins from the volcano's natural resources are worth more than $30 million. It brings the nation's total Bitcoin holdings to around $370.8m.

Remarkably, little more than 1.5 megawatts of energy from the total 102 megawatts delivered by the power plant were used for the mining of Bitcoin.