Joke's on them, we can't keep the lights on.FUCK TEXAS.
Some Industrial Bitcoin Miners are Moving to Cheap-Energy Texas - Slashdot
North America's largest crypto mine is six miles outside Rockdale, Texas, "a four-square-mile town that hosts a Walmart, one other grocery store, a handful of Mexican restaurants and a couple of pizza places," reports the Washington Post. The miners took over an old Alcoa aluminum facility...hardware.slashdot.org
Yeah, this was my thought: with the known heating issues and Texas' complete inability to keep their power grid running, why would you go to Texas?
Well, to undermine my own flippant response, because ERCOT paid the crypto miners to stop pulling power during the crunch.
Full-time professional bitcoin mining is a pest and should be abolished. It's the literal version of Captain Planet villains with big powerhungry plants producing absolutely nothing, just creating pollution for nothing. Obviously not surprising that Texas loves it.FUCK TEXAS.
Some Industrial Bitcoin Miners are Moving to Cheap-Energy Texas - Slashdot
North America's largest crypto mine is six miles outside Rockdale, Texas, "a four-square-mile town that hosts a Walmart, one other grocery store, a handful of Mexican restaurants and a couple of pizza places," reports the Washington Post. The miners took over an old Alcoa aluminum facility...hardware.slashdot.org
Remember the NY plant I mentioned a while back?
Well there's another one now, also in NY:
--Patrick
I've long since lost track of how many times I've essentially told people this same thing, and I don't just mean about Crypto.
www.techspot.com
Bah, there are not enough bear attacks in your story of crazy libertarians.
Still need to finish that book. It's pretty funny to me that libertarians hate having a "government name" but also hate anarchists and queer people even more
I'm pretty sure that I read an article recently that cryptos are being manipulated in exactly this way. So, when I have the cash, I'll definitely buy the dip on cryptos (unless there's some other indication that the drop is a real crash--like plenty of lesser-known pump and dump crypto scams)
The way their numbers are behaving lately, I completely believe it. Crypto is a lot easier to manipulate, too, since it's essentially fueled purely by capital--if not via the purchase and deployment of power and mining equipment, then directly through purchase of the cryptocurrency itself. It's the Hunt Brothers all over again, but with silicon instead of silver.
