stopthatgirl7 to News@lemmy.world • 1 year agoTexas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wavewww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1472arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: technews@radiation.partyhackernews@derp.foo
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To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.
minus-squarehoodatninjalinkfedilink7•edit-21 year agoThe article all but says just that. They made $10mill more than a month of mining. Not to mention all the costs they didn’t incur by not mining.
minus-squareSolidGruelinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoSo not a bad guess for just reading the headline, you say? Noice.
The article all but says just that. They made $10mill more than a month of mining. Not to mention all the costs they didn’t incur by not mining.
So not a bad guess for just reading the headline, you say?
Noice.