Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict the energy consumption of miners in the future.

    • rdyoung@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Tell me you’ve never mined any crypto without telling me that you’ve never mined any crypto.

      I could attempt to explain it but I get the feeling that you wouldn’t understand it.