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bitcoin is saving it, they installed so many subsidized bitcoin mines there and now they can use that power infrastructure during the heat wave

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Here's a short documentary film on bitcoin mining in Texas and Oklahoma, and its effects on the electrical grid and the communities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKUBpaXNH_g

The Fed should deploy market-making strats to bankrupt major crypto and shun exchanges industry-wide. Blockchain ledger immutability, smart contracts, and distributed transactions are good, but tying crypto to massive CPU use is expensive, wasteful, and climate-damaging.

A friend mines several non-PoW cryptos at home here in TX since there's no money in GPU mining anymore. Also, Helium, if that counts but it's really "Airbnb for LoRa".

Was that sarcasm? I can’t tell any more.

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