The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict the energy consumption of miners in the future.

    • metallic_substance@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Wow. No kidding. I lost a very close friend who got obsessed with the “get rich quick” aspect of crypto, and these losers sound just like he did. Granted, there were a multitude of other reasons I stopped talking to him, but holy fuck