this started as ~2007 menswear forum lore and then spread through an influential menswear writer who bought boxes of deer bones, got a shoe shiner to endorse his claims, and then sold $30 bones to middle-aged shoe nerds.
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i will say the crypto vision makes so much more in america where your choices are sending a payment via telegram from the mississippi teachers’ bank and trust that takes 6 days to clear or using an app called zinga! that broadcasts a public feed of your drug deals
The Nebraska Public Power District testified on Bitcoin Mining in the Senate last month.
They say that Bitcoin mining is a boon to rural communities.
One site has $65m economic impact, 200 associated jobs, and $5.5m tax revenue for an otherwise struggling area.
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If I ran a hypothetical bitcoin mining industry trade association, I would try to get all facets of the electric power industry (grids, unions, etc) in a room and ask them what they think of it.
I assume it's good. They would be a credible voice.
Anyway someone should do that
3. Russia shows how our financial sanctions failed. We sanctioned some banks, including the central bank (red), but not all. This meant that all the cash from Russia's current account surplus got routed through non-sanctioned Russian banks (blue). Putin still got all his cash...
Coinbase illegally collects face templates and fingerprints of its customers in violation of a biometric privacy law, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit https://trib.al/Ggt5z2f