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If climate change is finally taken seriously at some point, I hope they get clamped down on very hard. Unlike meth labs and "terrorists", a large mining farm can be traced by power usage. (Unless you're using solar, then go ahead and mine all you want.) Crypto fanatics are doing nothing of any practical value while greatly helping out with destroying our planet.

We've been having rolling blackouts recently because of these fuckers. Energy is cheap in my country and they use that. Power lines are not built for that sort of thing. The normal paying consumers are suffering as a result.

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