Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
by LatteLazy on Sunday January 16, 2022 @07:57AM
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Maybe if countries stopped giving away free energy people would waste less...
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Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
by sofixa on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:53AM
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The poor population of those countries needs that cheap energy to not freeze to death and in general for everyday living.
Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
by LatteLazy on Sunday January 16, 2022 @09:20AM
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So ration is accordingly. Just telling everyone they can have enough energy to run a Bitcoin mining op, and then being surprised when they run a Bitcoin mining op seems silly...
Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
by FabHK on Sunday January 16, 2022 @09:39AM
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So, if everyone was mining Bitcoin, they would earn around US$0.15 per month (assuming 8e9 people, a 6.25 BTC coinbase mining reward every 10 minutes plus some 10% transaction fees, at a price of US$40,000/BTC, and zero energy/mining rig cost). Yay, Bitcoin is solving global poverty!