misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square360fedilinkarrow-up11.02Kcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.online
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minus-squarelong_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agothey should be doing that, otherwise I don’t get how they are making any profit with those huge electricity bills. Last time I checked it, with electricity prices it wasn’t worth it to mine cryptocurrency.
minus-squareorrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agono, that’s the magic of speculative market financing
they should be doing that, otherwise I don’t get how they are making any profit with those huge electricity bills. Last time I checked it, with electricity prices it wasn’t worth it to mine cryptocurrency.
no, that’s the magic of speculative market financing