The Real World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

A new movie pass is coming back. Bitcoin miners are moving closer to electric plants and they've made deals with the governments, which is really pissing me off. If you want to hate crypto bros, even more than you already do, then read this article. The New York Times has a story on how much it costs to run an energy-efficient Bitcoin mine in Texas.

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The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

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