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technology • 2 months ago

Texas bitcoin mining operation holds electric grid ransom, is paid more than it earns mining to not run its hardware on high-load days

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Texas bitcoin mining operation holds electric grid ransom, is paid more than it earns mining to not run its hardware on high-load days

hypercracker to

technology • 2 months ago

From "Why Texas Republicans are Souring on Crypto" from The Economist https://archive.ph/eIXGc

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courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]
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2 months ago
Delightfully Pratchett-esque

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  2 months ago
  It's Joseph Heller from Catch-22.
  
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