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May 17, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I wrote about a bitcoin mining trend that isn't getting nearly enough attention.
Bitcoin miners/fossil fuel companies—they are increasingly one & the same—are buying portable generators, hauling in server farms in shipping containers & mining bitcoin right at the wellheads
For the past year or so, all the stories about bitcoin mining at oil/gas wells was about using "waste" gas released during oil mining. That's not what's going on here. These are gas wells that were opened & closed & this gas would have stayed in the ground without bitcoin mining