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The shutdown of a Bitcoin mining facility in Norway caused a 20% increase in electricity bills for the town's residents. The loss of the mining operation's revenue forced the local power company to raise rates to offset costs.

Increasing energy availability for production is not enough to stimulate GDP growth, that energy must actually be consumed and put to use.

Last month, the provincial energy regulator was asked to reallocate 270 megawatts that was set aside for cryptocurrency mining.

A bill that would create new licensing and electricity purchase requirements has been sent on to a third vote.

In the early days of Bitcoin, very few people knew the global impact it would have. Some Africans are seeing the benefits from bitcoin mining.

Miners face an absolute bloodbath in their attempts to acquire bitcoin profitably as hash rate and electricity costs continue to rise while prices remain low.

Bitcoin’s unique properties of electricity usage and heat generation bring new frontiers to building design.

Bitcoin converts wasted energy into a different kind of battery for a more sustainable future. The battery of human time, effort and ingenuity: money.

Bitcoin miners are uniquely flexible energy consumers we can use as energy tools to help solve several energy problems.

What makes this Arctic outpost so attractive to bitcoin miners, considering the country’s tiny geographical size and small population?