stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoTexas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wavewww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1407arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: technews@radiation.party
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To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.
minus-squarehavokdj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoCare to explain how BTC, a currency with no one controlling it, is a pyramid scheme? Who benefits from it besides huge miners? All they get is transaction fees paid to them for supporting the network. That’s not a pyramid scheme.
Care to explain how BTC, a currency with no one controlling it, is a pyramid scheme?
Who benefits from it besides huge miners? All they get is transaction fees paid to them for supporting the network. That’s not a pyramid scheme.