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The Latest New York Times Bitcoin Mining Hit Piece Is a Monument to Intellectual Laziness

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Bitcoin Mining: The Energy Cost of the Digital Race

The New York Times published a hit piece on the energy cost of Bitcoin mining. The article is almost comically incoherent, but highlights its real message: Bitcoin is bad because we say it is. It seems likely reporters were pressured to reshape their reporting into something it is not," writes David Frum.

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