Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid
Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid
Residents in the small town of Granbury are raising alarms over noise from a local Bitcoin mine, while state lawmakers warn that the energy-hungry facilities risk “crashing” the electrical grid.
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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.
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
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.
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
Those people elected those leaders though
Every single citizen of texas Voted for the same leaders and policies? 🤨
No, just the majority
But, those citizens voted.
Please, they’re in Mexico or Korea when something like this happens