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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid
(insideclimatenews.org)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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Texas leaders invited them into the state in the first place – “You made your bed, now lie in it.”
That'd be valid if the leaders who invited them in were the only ones suffering, but it's regular citizens, including people who've been vehemently against bitcoin mining operations, who are getting fucked.
Those people elected those leaders though
Every single citizen of texas Voted for the same leaders and policies? 🤨
No, just the majority