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by voidwtf 683 days ago
So now they have to add individual energy usage monitoring so a minority of individuals mine/trade bitcoin?

The environmental ethics behind proof-of-work crypto is dubious at best. Maybe they’ve made a choice not to support crypto operations for ethical reasons.

this also doesn’t take into account the possibility that they’d have to increase their overall electrical capacity (amps), load distribution equipment, UPS, and generators. at cost to all other users, less runtime, more distributed cost, etc…

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What does that have to do with them forbidding plotting or simply storing crypto data? How is that energy intensive?