Bitcoin backlash as 'miners' suck up electricity, stress power grids in Central Washington. Approve

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: May 27, 2018 at 5:40:13 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Bitcoin backlash as 'miners' suck up electricity, stress power grids in Central Washington
>
>
> Bitcoin backlash as 'miners' suck up electricity, stress power grids
> in Central Washington
>
> https://www.seattletimes.com/business/bitcoin-backlash-as-miners-suck-up-electricity-stress-power-grids-in-central-washington/
>
>      But it's not simply the scale of requests that is perplexing
>    utility staff. Many would-be miners have no understanding of
>    how large power purchases work. In one case this winter,
>    miners from China landed their private jet at the local
>    airport, drove a rental car to the visitor center at the Rocky
>    Reach Dam, just north of Wenatchee, and, according to Chelan
>    County PUD officials, politely asked to see the "dam master
>    because we want to buy some electricity."  Bitcoin fever has
>    created other, smaller-scale problems for the utility. Three
>    times a week, on average, utility crews in Chelan County
>    discover unpermitted home miners running computer servers far
>    too large for the electrical grids of residential
>    neighborhoods. In one instance last year, the transformer
>    outside a bootleg miner's home overheated and touched off a
>    grass fire, Chelan County PUD officials say.
>
> - - -
>
> Just cut these cryptocurrency mining parasites off. Knock them off the
> grid. If they can generate their own power safely, fine. Otherwise, to
> hell with them.
>
> --Lauren--
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