Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict the energy consumption of miners in the future.

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    9 months ago

    Let’s waste 2.7% energy for some virtual asset with purely speculative value while we warm our planet past the 1.5C. All out of greed.