To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.

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    1 year ago

    Probably a better payday than whatever the mining would have turned up.

    Texas: more dollars than sense.

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      1 year ago

      The article all but says just that. They made $10mill more than a month of mining. Not to mention all the costs they didn’t incur by not mining.