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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid
(insideclimatenews.org)
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Texas leaders invited them into the state in the first place – “You made your bed, now lie in it.”
That'd be valid if the leaders who invited them in were the only ones suffering, but it's regular citizens, including people who've been vehemently against bitcoin mining operations, who are getting fucked.
I’m pretty sure not hooking Texas up to the grid is what’s causing the suffering and that was the choice of the politicians, same people that incentivized the miners with cheaper energy.
How do these idiots wind up in power, though? Oh yeah, citizens keep electing them.
Texas is one of the mostly severely gerrymandered places in the country, with openly hostile voter restrictions targeting democratic voters
And republicans still only barely win