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- news@hexbear.net
- news@lemmy.world
- technology@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
- news@lemmy.world
- technology@lemmit.online
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
The effects of any concerted effort can be immense. The point of that other commenter is that the average person should not (and need not) pay for the sins of the oil tycoons that got us here. I could also start talking about how if everybody in the US reduced their carbon footprint we could make so much progress. Wait, you’re telling me the gas companies invented the very idea to sow activist discord? No way!!!