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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)

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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

The cops used to find people growing marijuana in winter by the snow thawed on the roofs. Now there would be a mining rig under such a roof (also, most of the time there will be no snow, and then too much snow on occasion)