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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 9 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A system used by everybody, and a system still used by a tiny fraction of the population are using a comparable amount of energy?

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

hey, most of the crypto fans are all temporarily embarrassed billionaire libertarians anyway, so the bottom 99.5% can all eat shit and die