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Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year ago

Texas pays Bitcoin miner to not mine

www.texasmonthly.com

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Texas pays Bitcoin miner to not mine

www.texasmonthly.com

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Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year ago

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Texas Paid a Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million to Use Less Electricity

www.texasmonthly.com

Paying Bitcoin companies to turn off their energy-gobbling computers is apparently our best plan to keep the power on for the rest of us.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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If one Bitcoin miner can take down all of Texas, y’all are more fucking fragile that you let on

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