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Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants by bawolff on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:59AM (#26830072)
What a weird metric.

The international space station isn't replacing anything, i still think its valuable.

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Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants by mclightning on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:34AM (#26830734)
It has replaced things. You are just ignorant to it.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/15_...

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Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants by bawolff on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:11AM (#26841517)
? That's a list of cool new things related to the ISS, not a list of pre-existing things that the ISS has replaced.
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Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants by hnbad on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:00AM (#26831386)
I can't tell you how many people I've seen defending the energy use of cryptocurrencies by saying in essence "yes, but it's nothing in comparison to the energy we waste on the banking sector so it'll actually become more efficient as it replaces that".
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