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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's a pretty cool way to address the problem. I originally wrote solution, but that's not really a solution since it could theoretically just be multi pools, but by putting a barrier in place like that to discourage it, it should lessen the problem.