[image] Weather These are currently big areas of concern in my state, due to number, drain on grid, and how it could all affect tourism (centered around our natural beauty and resources). I saw a report about some rural area where a crypto mining center had started running (I think in NC, but …

Not 100% sure, but I think this may be about the operation I had read about. Not Chinese; SF based: [image] How the blare of a crypto mine woke up this Blue Ridge Mountain town | CNN Ambivalence turned to anger when a crypto mine opened in Murphy, North Carolina, bringing what one man c…

[image] Weather Data Centers for Crypto and AI This is an eye opening article about these two things, IMO, that mankind could do without https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2024/06/13/ercot-ceo-stuns-texas-officials-with-new-estimate-for-power-needs/

[image] Picks_by_Nisha: the noise from the cooling system was loud enough to bother the people living anywhere within a mile or so. happened here too [image] A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Bitcoin Mines Residents of Granbury, Texas are complaining of health issues…

[image] wadeorcas: that mankind could do without IMO, anyone considering crypto as a serious investment should study up about tulip-mania. Seems to me that BitCoin is nothing more than an electronic tulip bulb.

[image] Picks_by_Nisha: … Seems to me that BitCoin is nothing more than an electronic tulip bulb. Despite the fact that we ourselves have pocketed a good deal of moolah in judiciously ‘mining’ that particular marketspace over the years since it first appeared, I’m constrained to agree with y…

Bitcoin and AI are stupid and worse for the planet than most people realize,

[image] aerides: Bitcoin and AI are stupid and worse for the planet than most people realize When the aliens come After we are gone And begin digging Through our society’s rusty entrails In hopes of determining “What was their Swan Song?” They’ll pore, avidly, through the dusty details …

I’m pro BTC At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Much larger discussion and one that goes outside the forum rules - so having said that every new frontier attracts loads of charlatans - so the gold rush had entire businesses c…

BTC is a solution in search of a problem. To date its use is speculation or gambling. It may be one of the strongest options in gambling since there is less human activity short of the gamblers, and that can be automated like much of the stock market trading.

I think that BlockChain (the tech behind BitCoin) is a promising technology, that will find many important uses in the future (and already has several). But I don’t think BitCoin is going to be one of those uses. (and from what little I know about BlockChain, BitCoin is one of the most poorly desig…

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