Bitcoin paradise? Briton creates ‘crypto utopia’ in South Pacific | Cryptocurrencies – Lifestyle | The Guardian

Bitcoin paradise? Briton creates ‘crypto utopia’ in South Pacific | Cryptocurrencies

Shared from www.theguardian.com For the past 12 years Anthony Welch and his partner Theresa have been living a Robinson Crusoe life alone on a South Pacific island mostly untouched by humanity. Welch, a retired British […]

Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared | Cryptocurrencies – Lifestyle | The Guardian

Bitcoin mining machines in a warehouse at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas.

Shared from www.theguardian.com Environmentalists in Montana called it the “death watch”. Following years of financial losses one of the handful of remaining coal-fired power plants in the state appeared doomed, its likely fate offering a […]