Blåhaj PieFedJudge denies Bitcoin company's request to block local election in Hood County
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A federal court rejected Marathon Digital Holdings’ request for a temporary restraining order against Mitchell Bend’s incorporation election.
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MelllvarHard to think of anything more useless than a bitcoin “mine”.
The amount of energy and pollution wasted on creating nothing is mind boggling.
The very limited regulation makes for great pump and dump schemes, bribery, political corruption, etc.
A wildly unstable currency not backed by any government and can easily be stolen in vast sums. What could go wrong?
Remember that Bitcoin is still using the inherently wasteful “proof of work” pattern to incentive the necessary hash computations.
And that it’s less of a currency than it is a speculative security. Kind of like in-game currency for a MMO that allows real-money exchange, but without the game and somehow with even less stability or efficiency.
And even less than useless, it is actively destructive.
Many mines are destructive. But most at least dig up something physical. Bitcoin mining is just pointless busy work to prove you did the most pointless busy work in order to get awarded the bitcoin. There’s nothing of actual value whatsoever.
You shouldn’t be allowed to do such environmentally destructive nonsense as running a “bitcoin mine”.
This sounds like they’re mining the bitcoin from the ground. This is just a datacenter churning pointless calculations for no real value, right? It’s not a mine. And if it produces noise, they’re doing it wrong.
titanicxEver been in a data center? I started wearing full ear cover headphones to block the noise.
I expect it’s a fossil fuel power plant making the noise.
Thousands of fans will produce a lot of noice you cant always hear. That noise you can’t hear will still damage your ears and affect you. A lot of these bitcoin mine data centres are just a shipping container or 2 with servers and minimal or no noise dampening.
The Bitcoin mine, which MARA has owned for almost two years, has been a source of noise pollution that residents say has been the cause of a range of health issues including lack of sleep, vertigo, nausea and motion sickness.”
Fucking what? What do people think happens in a “bitcoin mine”??
Well, if it’s a data center with a colocated fossil-fuel power plant (and, being Texas, that’s likely), what happens is noise pollution and air pollution. The vertigo, nausea and motion sickness sound like bullshit, but other health issues are an expected outcome.
Sounds like felony contempt of business model to me. How dare the local citizens hold an election of all things.
This part made me laugh. This all could have been avoided if the company had been a good neighbor and worked with these people to correct the issue without it coming to them incorporating and setting up ordinances.
I’m at the point with companies where I hope this drives them out of business.
“Help, judge! These elected officials are doing what their constituents want instead of only serving business interests!”
This company is probably so used to just getting their way that when democracy actually works as intended, they interpret it as illegal activity.
Sorry bit coin miners, go find more isolated locations. I almost think they should be forced to live in the same proximity to their mine as the closest resident. Luckily, I’m not a judge.
Though I’m generally familiar with the process of mining, I wasn’t clear how noise could be such a problem. TIL: