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by s73v3r_ 2911 days ago
"They’re probably incorporated businesses paying taxes and injecting wealth into local economy through payroll and other expenses."

What evidence do you have of this? In other areas where this happens, like up by the hydroelectric dam in Washington State, this very much does not happen, and in fact, many mining operations are illegally attaching to the grid.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/09/bitcoin-m...