[Reprint] excess generating capacity installed total waste of US power plants simply dig Bitcoin mining machine

The total amount of surplus power plant simply a waste of US mining equipment digging machine Bitcoin

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14MW about 360,000 one - day electricity 

is less than 200,000 electricity Bitcoin China, then the market value of about 5.5 300,000 

gross profit, or some ah

 

Two years ago, when hot Bitcoin market, there is often a steal electric mining news appears. Unexpectedly, the passage of time, power plants are simply deployed directly encrypt mining machine to dig the money. According to foreign media reports, the New York-Dresden has a natural gas power plant Greenidge Generation company's operations, being here around the clock to run the 7,000 Bitcoin mining machine, Nissan 5.5 bitcoin, currently worth about $ 450 million.

The reason for the mining, power generation plants because there is always a surplus, these do not need to the power distribution grid resources are often wasted in the state. At present, the power consumption of 7,000 mining machine is 14 megawatts, tasted the sweetness of GG company intends to increase to 106 megawatts in the future.

It is reported that gas power plants are thermal power plants in 2017 by the transformation from an area of about 9 acres. Bitcoin dig through cooperation with the manufacturers, the revenue is used to further the transformation of plant infrastructure.

However, mining does not seem sustainable because Bitcoin more and more difficult to dig.