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China is kicking out more than half the world’s bitcoin miners – and a whole lot of them could be headed to Texas

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  1. ImmobileVoyager
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    How likely is it that bitcoin mining accomodates intermittent solar and wind electricity ? While it mentions the disastrous blackout of last winter, the article seems completely oblivious of how a...

    How likely is it that bitcoin mining accomodates intermittent solar and wind electricity ? While it mentions the disastrous blackout of last winter, the article seems completely oblivious of how a grid works. Well, I suppose that's what you get when reading the television ;-)

    Hints : electricity is generated on-demand and just-in-time. This is something that every copywriter should know, and that even a journalist can understand.

    Longer version.

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