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Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
submitted 4 months ago by StevenSaus@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14304762

Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks. At least 10 people went to urgent care or the emergency room with these symptoms. The development of large-scale Bitcoin mines and data centers is quite new, and most of them are housed in extremely remote places. There have been no major medical studies on the impacts of living near one. But there is an increasing body of scientific studies linking prolonged exposure to noise pollution with cardiovascular damage.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

All for something so speculative and stupid that has no tangible benefit to society as a whole.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

You mean like stock markets?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Decentralized finance could save the planet a massive amount of grift and wasted resources.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

How? Corporations would still (and are) involved. Please detail.

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

Like almost any other thing being done massively by humans currently .