Quote from: alani123 on July 28, 2025, 05:37:11 AM

Newly released video highlights the effects industrial bitcoin mining can have on society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_WDzPyoqU

Marathon Digital Holdings has been running industrial scale BTC mining operation in Texas with complete disregard as to what effect their operations can have on local communities.

They're essentially blasting industrial levels of noise into everyone's household. There's no way to shield yourself from 85 decibels of noise. This is the legal limit in texas, which mind you, is very relaxed in terms of regulation. OSHA dictates that when noise is constant above 85 decibels in a workplace, the employer must implement hearing protection measures for workers exposed to these levels of noise.

But in Texas, this bitcoin mine is allowed by politicians to blast noise levels over 100 decibels into resident's homes without any issue.

Moreover, the mining operations get favourable electricity rates while residents end up paying the premium. All at a time that the water supply is also scarce, and we all know industrial scale bitcoin mining needs tons of water for cooling.

If it came to your neighborhood, would you still support bitcoin mining?

This is not good, Texas has empty hundreds of miles that they can build their mining facility on, why did they choose to build this one close to where people are living? This is not good, people are already complaining that if kamala was president she won't allow this and that's alot of equipment running 24/7 over there, it's clearly not healthy.

Poor people, they are old and older people need the silence in their surroundings, they have to rest and sleep well unfortunately this won't be the case for these old people, this is not acceptable by me, it's not a good thing and I hope these old people families can help stand up for them. They can maybe pay them off to live somewhere else or what?

I can't run more than two a Asic miners, I like the power they offer but the noise is something that I can't stand, gone are those golden days where a GPU is enough to mine, even Bitcoin home miners have high noise too.