
CommunityNews
A US company has turned a former coal plant into a gas-fired Bitcoin mine
Bitcoin mines require a lot of energy to power the computers inside. Greenidge Generation in New York has converted a former coal plant into a gas-fired Bitcoin mine.
Facing criticism from environmentalists, the company argues it offsets its emissions, is 100% carbon neutral, and has plans to invest in solar energy.
BBC North America’s technology reporter James Clayton paid a visit to the mine.
Read in full here:
This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.
First Post!

bot
Corresponding tweet for this thread:
Share link for this tweet.
Popular Blockchain topics
New

Bitcoin uses more electricity annually than the whole of Argentina, analysis by Cambridge University suggests.
“Mining” for the cryptocu...
New

Digital currency Bitcoin has risen to a new record high of more than $50,000 (£36,000).
The so-called cryptocurrency, which was created ...
New

As much as $365 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops car purchases with bitcoin.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tesla wou...
New

How Blockchains Work
Chances are, you know what Bitcoin is. After all, it’s valued at over $47,000 per Bitcoin right now. This post isn’t...
New

At Philip Hughes farm, near the Berwyn mountain range, not far from the Snowdonia National Park, in Denbighshire, cattle chew the lush va...
New
New

Bitcoin mines require a lot of energy to power the computers inside. Greenidge Generation in New York has converted a former coal plant i...
New

Fans of crypto-currencies say they are the future of money - but at what cost?
New

Blockchain technology is set to play a transformative role in the future of online casino game development. By offering enhanced transpar...
New
Other popular topics

Hello Devtalk World!
Please let us know a little about who you are and where you’re from :nerd_face:
New

SpaceVim seems to be gaining in features and popularity and I just wondered how it compares with SpaceMacs in 2020 - anyone have any thou...
New

We have a thread about the keyboards we have, but what about nice keyboards we come across that we want? If you have seen any that look n...
New

“Finding the Boundaries” Hero’s Journey with Noel Rappin @noelrappin
Even when you’re ultimately right about what the future ho...
New

Hello content creators! Happy new year. What tech topics do you think will be the focus of 2021? My vote for one topic is ethics in tech...
New

If you are experiencing Rails console using 100% CPU on your dev machine, then updating your development and test gems might fix the issu...
New

Saw this on TikTok of all places! :lol:
Anyone heard of them before?
Lite:
New

Rails 7 completely redefines what it means to produce fantastic user experiences and provides a way to achieve all the benefits of single...
New

Build efficient applications that exploit the unique benefits of a pure functional language, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell t...
New

Author Spotlight
Erin Dees
@undees
Welcome to our new author spotlight! We had the pleasure of chatting with Erin Dees, co-author of ...
New
Latest in Blockchain
Latest (all)
Categories:
Popular Portals
- /elixir
- /rust
- /wasm
- /ruby
- /erlang
- /phoenix
- /keyboards
- /js
- /rails
- /python
- /security
- /go
- /swift
- /vim
- /clojure
- /java
- /haskell
- /emacs
- /svelte
- /onivim
- /typescript
- /crystal
- /c-plus-plus
- /tailwind
- /kotlin
- /gleam
- /react
- /flutter
- /elm
- /ocaml
- /vscode
- /opensuse
- /ash
- /centos
- /php
- /deepseek
- /zig
- /html
- /scala
- /debian
- /nixos
- /lisp
- /agda
- /react-native
- /sublime-text
- /textmate
- /kubuntu
- /arch-linux
- /ubuntu
- /revery
- /manjaro
- /django
- /spring
- /diversity
- /nodejs
- /lua
- /slackware
- /c
- /julia
- /neovim