Crypto in Wisconsin
2023-01-23 18:01:44.897432+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I like this framing: Roundball @shlenny@heads.social
#Crypto mining, prohibited in China moved to countries with laxer regulations such as the United States like the one out of the former Park Falls Pulp and Paper in #Wisconsin
The White House estimated the greenhouse gas footprint of electricity powering U.S. cryptocurrency production is equivalent to 3 million gas-powered automobiles. The United States now hosts about one-third of global Bitcoin asset mining, the report said."
The article is: In rural Wisconsin, former employees lift curtain on troubled crypto mine