Quote from: mindrust on Today at 09:57:57 AM

Didn't Elon recently say that he he will accept BTC for Tesla cars again because did the math wrong and Bitcoin is not as harmful as he thought it was?

And?
Yeah, the evil coal mining in China is done for. Hail to the good coal and gas mining in the US!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-life-to-old-fossil-fuel-power-plants-11621594803

Nobody will pay 8-10 cents a kWh for clean green energy when you have a deal like this one:

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In the joint venture, Beowulf gets part-ownership of Marathon, but Marathon keeps the Bitcoin output from a data center that will use an estimated 37MW of power from Beowulf's 119MW Hardin Generating Station in Big Horn County, Montana. Marathon will pay $0.028/kWh for the energy, which is about a quarter of the average US domestic rate of around $0.11/kWh.

Whoever thought that by closing a mining farm that used electricity from coal-burning miners will suddenly find enlightenment and switch to hydro is living in a fairy dream. If coal plants in the US would be able to provide cheaper energy than others they will be the ones powering the gear, not solar panels and windmills.