Come once more?
Miner No Mining
Riot Blockchain, a crypto mining firm based mostly in Texas, simply advised everybody how a lot it bought paid to do completely nothing — and it is a hefty sum.
Back in July, Riot voluntarily shut down a few of its mining rigs to stop energy outages throughout a large Texas warmth wave. With so many residents needing to eat extra electrical energy to keep cool, rolling blackouts may have occurred if the grid had been overloaded.
It’s a commendable selection, however one which made a ton of money for Riot — earlier this month, the mining outfit revealed that the state of Texas paid the corporate “$9.5 million in energy credit because of curtailment exercise, to be credited in opposition to its energy invoices.”
In different phrases, the Lone Star State paid these people a small fortune simply to do nothing. So principally it is simply one other day within the Kafkaesque world of blockchain.
Dead Dinos
It’s greater than a bit of ridiculous that crypto corporations are sucking up Earth’s pure assets at such an astonishing fee after which getting paid handsomely, with taxpayer {dollars}, to quickly cease.
The US’ complete mining rigs are utilizing as a lot energy as the town of Houston, crypto exchanges hold getting slapped with lawsuits, and total it is so unhealthy Congress is at the moment contemplating how greatest to regulate the whole trade.
While a complete ban just like the one China has applied would not appear probably or advisable within the US, there’s absolutely bought to be a greater approach than paying a mining firm hundreds of thousands only for it to hold churning an excellent bigger revenue — particularly when tax payers are footing the invoice.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/texas-crypto-bitcoin-mining-energy
