#Cryptos Mining

[crypto-mining-farm]

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Du hast dich schon immer gefragt, wie du 50.000 Euro und mehr pro Monat online verdienen kannst? Dann ist der Handel mit Devisen (Foreign Exchange, "Forex") vielleicht das Richtige für dich. Der Forex ist der größte und liquideste Markt der Welt und bietet viele Möglichkeiten zum Geldverdienen. In diesem Artikel erklären wir dir, wie du ein Forex Trader wirst und deine Ziele erreichen…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

“Carbon neutral” Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn’t actually carbon neutral

I'm at DEFCON! TODAY (Aug 9), I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). TOMORROW (Aug 10), I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

Water is wet, and a Bitcoin thing turned out to be a scam. Why am I writing about a Bitcoin scam? Two reasons:

I. It's also a climate scam; and

II. The journalists who uncovered it have a unique business-model.

Here's the scam. Terawulf is a publicly traded company that purports to do "green" Bitcoin mining. Now, cryptocurrency mining is one of the most gratuitously climate-wrecking activities we have. Mining Bitcoin is an environmental crime on par with opening a brunch place that only serves Spotted Owl omelets.

Despite Terawulf's claim to be carbon-neutral, it is not. It plugs into the NY power grid and sucks up farcical quantities of energy produced from fossil fuel sources. The company doesn't buy even buy carbon credits (carbon credits are a scam, but buying carbon credits would at least make its crimes nonfraudulent):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

Terawulf is a scam from top to bottom. Its NY state permit application promises not to pursue cryptocurrency mining, a thing it was actively trumpeting its plan to do even as it filed that application.

The company has its roots in the very dirtiest kinds of Bitcoin mining. Its top execs (including CEO Paul Prager) were involved with Beowulf Energy LLC, a company that convinced struggling coal plant operators to keep operating in order to fuel Bitcoin mining rigs. There's evidence that top execs at Terawulf, the "carbon neutral" Bitcoin mining op, are also running Beowulf, the coal Bitcoin mining op.

This is a very profitable scam. Prager owns a "small village" in Maryland, with more that 20 structures, including a private gas station for his Ferrari collection (he also has a five bedroom place on Fifth Ave). More than a third of Terawulf's earnings were funneled to Beowulf. Terawulf also leases its facilities from a company that Prager owns 99.9% of, and Terawulf has *showered * that company in its stock.

So here we are, a typical Bitcoin story: scammers lying like hell, wrecking the planet, and getting indecently rich. The guy's even spending his money like an asshole. So far, so normal.

But what's interesting about this story is where it came from: Hunterbrook Media, an investigative news outlet that's funded by a short seller – an investment firm that makes bets that companies' share prices are likely to decline. They stand to make a ton of money if the journalists they hire find fraud in the companies they investigate:

https://hntrbrk.com/terawulf/

It's an amazing source of class disunity among the investment class:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/money-talks/#bullshit-walks

As the icing on the cake, Prager and Terawulf are pivoting to AI training. Because of course they are.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/09/terawulf/#hunterbrook

[vimbry]

[nightmarereverie]

“Hatsune Miku villain vers. noodle stopper figure (black)” by FuRyu

[wattscn]

i know this is abt revenant but. to me it's about crypto and the girlies

[captainwebgenesis]

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[trans-androgyne]

hi i hope this is okay to send and if not apologies in advance. there's been a new user posting in the transandrophobia tags j2eonij and... idk, i'm getting terf trying to recruit vibes? and was just wondering what you thought?

Totally alright, I see what you mean. Even if this person isn’t a radfem they’re leaning into their rhetoric too much for me. They’ve only been posting for a few days so it’s too early to know. But they’re someone to keep an eye on. Here’s where their posts raised eyebrows for me:

It’s already a bad sign to focus on “baeddels” as though that group is at risk of developing a “complete monopoly on gender politics,” the way terfs also make them out to be more powerful and pervasive than they are. The fixation on afab-amab dynamics is suspicious to me. Terfs have frequently tried to argue that transfems will always side with cis men over “afabs” and that’s why trans community dynamics are the way they are. I’m not calling this person one, but I will be looking out for more of this from them.

[bisthefairy]

The average Mario Kart character owns 35 shitty businesses

[odinsblog]

US Bitcoin Miners Use as Much Electricity as Everyone in Utah

Bitcoin miners in the US are consuming the same amount of electricity as the entire state of Utah, among others, according to a new analysis by the US Energy Information Administration. And that’s considered the low end of the range of use.

Electricity usage from mining operations represents 0.6% to 2.3% of all the country’s demand in 2023, according to the report released Thursday. It is the first time EIA has shared an estimate. The mining activity has generated mounting concerns from policymakers and electric grid planners about straining the grid during periods of peak demand, energy costs and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions.

“This estimate of U.S. electricity demand supporting cryptocurrency mining would equal annual demand ranging from more than three million to more than six million homes,” the report said.

While mining began in the US a decade ago, an influx of crypto mining companies have relocated from China after that country banned the industry in May 2021. Over the last three years, a flurry of large-scale miners have gone public in the US, setting up operations in some of the most energy-rich states such as Texas and New York.

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[gainercryptocom]

Caw Crypto Price Prediction: Unveiling Future Market Trends

[dumbass-punk-goth]

random hc, but vaughn is defo a crypto dude. not as extreme as the mfs over on twitter, but he's not too far off either.

he definitely tried getting rhys in on it as well, but the dude's too skeptical of it (thank god)

hmm, he probably (definitely) also invested into crypto currency and lost a shit ton of money

[hungwy]

whats funny about my computer is that the fan was just screaming and i opened task manager and it calmed down and its been calm for the last two hours while ive had task manager open and the second i closed task manager the fan started speeding up again despite nothing else changing but a closed window

[crypto-hackerposting]

back just to post the one banner and 'signature' from the anniversary download pack!

[basiliskonline]

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[captainwebgenesis]

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[mommatakescareofthebills]

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