Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k
by thrower23423423 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:58AM
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Hmm. I'm surprised BTC isn't mined in India - a country with an extremely high power leakage, and provides free electricity for 'farmers'.
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Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k
by ChainOfFools on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:29PM
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There has to be a goldilocks zone where high power theft and corruption is balanced with reasonable physical security and guarantee of stable power delivery, or your miners will short out the entire town supply, if they aren't simply stolen first. Also thy need cooling and are very noisy, attracting attention.
For example, the country of Georgia: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/23/597780405/...