US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
  • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    and if bitcoin wasn’t wasting all that energy, we could be powering actually useful stuff with that renewable energy

    If anybody wanted to use that energy its price would go up and bitcoin miners probably wouldn’t buy it as they need the cheapest possible energy to be competitive.