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arstechnica.com

Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub

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.

This power plant stopped burning fossil fuels. Then Bitcoin came along
grist.org

This power plant stopped burning fossil fuels. Then Bitcoin came along

A cryptocurrency company is showing how Bitcoin can keep dirty energy alive.
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