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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid
(insideclimatenews.org)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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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.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not disagreeing with you, but the mentality that "Eh, they supported a shitty system, now they're suffering the consequences" is implying that everyone affected supported the shitty system, which they definitely didn't.
Yeah but there are enough of them that voted in their leaders and after a chunk of Texans froze to death you would think they’d have any kind of self awareness to see what causes their power issues.
How many times do you need to touch the hot stove to learn a lesson?
palm is all scar tissue, touches the stove for the Nth time One of these times I won't feel the burn