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11. You raise an interesting question. Since the profit in bitcoin (and similar proof of work coins)...

Tue May 31, 2022, 07:18 PM

May 2022

is largely about how cheap you can get electricity why aren't more utilities mining?

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Record Wind in Scotland Means Grid Tells Some Turbines to Stop [View all] Caribbeans May 2022 OP

Are you... Caribbeans May 2022 #4

Storing electricity produced by wind Finishline42 Jun 2022 #13

Don't many of the transit lines use electical power? brush May 2022 #2

When the grid is full it's full and cannot accept any more juice Caribbeans May 2022 #5

Well does it cost more? brush May 2022 #12

cant they mine some bitcoin with the excess juice? Blues Heron May 2022 #3

Some might consider that a "waste". n/t PoliticAverse May 2022 #8

Free money for the utility - what's not to like? Blues Heron May 2022 #10