July 7, 2021 ☼ bitcoin ☼ crypto ☼ environment
Source: Ars Technica - Link
The fossil fuel power plant that a private equity firm revived to mine bitcoin is at it again. Not content to just pollute the atmosphere in pursuit of a volatile crypto asset with little real-world utility, this experiment in free marketeering is also dumping tens of millions of gallons of hot water into glacial Seneca Lake in upstate New York.
Incredibly stupid.