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Re:Why gold and Bitcoin are popular by kragen on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:27AM (#27502918)
> Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin

Yeah, my comments on this are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450889. Either they're dumb or they're pulling some scam I'm not wise to.

> illicit coal extraction

Yeah, if you steal your energy it can even be cheaper than any energy you have to pay for. But then you get "authorities deciding to act," which really limits your scalability.

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