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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

palm is all scar tissue, touches the stove for the Nth time One of these times I won't feel the burn

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The majority did. Rather then blaming the bitcoin miners operating legally, in a bad system, blame the politicians and those that voted for them and continue to do so.

I think it’s perfectly fine to shut down bitcoin mining if it’s bad for the power grid, but then you should also look at what else is bad and shut it too. The law should be fair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do these idiots wind up in power, though? Oh yeah, citizens keep electing them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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