Bitcoin Miners Depilating Dogs?

Bitcoin Miners Depilating Dogs

Today, let’s discuss whether Bitcoin mining is behind canine hair loss, old oak trees dying, and old people getting sick.

This is an electric vehicle — a Tesla.

If you plug it in, you’re a good person.

And you’re saving the planet because E.V.s do not emit carbon dioxide.

By contrast, this is a Bitcoin mining rig.

If you plug one of these in…

You’re actually a bad person. You’re destroying the planet.

Even though Bitcoin mining rigs, like electric vehicles, do not emit carbon dioxide.

Who knew it’s so hard to be good these days?

As you know, if you’ve ever watched The Goode Family from many years ago.

If you’re a Bitcoin miner…

It’s especially difficult to be good these days.

For example, since Bitcoin miners came to this small town in Granbury, Texas, many things have been going wrong.

A centuries-old oak tree died. It’s hard to believe.

How did this happen?

What’s the world coming to when really old things suddenly die?

Also, an 81-year-old woman got sick, and a 64-year-old man got a blood clot. And don’t you dare blame something else for that blood clot?

It was definitely caused by these Bitcoin mining machines. Bitcoin miners showed no mercy to Granbury, Texas. They didn’t even stop depilating dogs. This dog lost fur, thanks to the Bitcoin miners.

To be fair to the Bitcoin miners, the author of The Times article admits that it’s possible that none of these problems were actually caused by Bitcoin mining itself.

This disclaimer is very deep in the Times article:

• “It’s nearly impossible to prove that Bitcoin mining directly caused the afflictions of these specific animals and plants. But as the strange anecdotes accumulate, they add to the stress of a town that feels under siege from all directions.”

This “under siege from all directions” is always interesting.

The only time that New York journalists like Andrew Chow, who wrote this article, take a break from looking down their noses at “redneck towns” in “flyover country” is when they want to use their rural brethren as a political battering ram.

Here’s an anthropologist presenting his findings in New York City:

• “The drone footage is our best evidence yet that humans actually inhabit this area in the middle of the country called flyover country.”

These same journalists didn’t write articles about all the manufacturing jobs in Granbury being outsourced to China to help create a bid for U.S. government debt and endless U.S. government deficits.

These journalists didn’t write articles about Scott Jamar of Granbury, Texas, who died early in 2003 in Iraq fighting a war for the U.S. dollar elites to stop Saddam Hussein from selling oil for euros.

When it comes to a new type of money like Bitcoin that gives people freedom from bankers…

Harvard-trained journalist Andrew Chow’s moral sensibilities awakened. He’s suddenly “SO CONCERNED” about rural Texas folk.

It would seem that a Texas jury would disagree with his article.

Just yesterday, a Texas jury sided with a Bitcoin miner, Marathon, who runs a Bitcoin mining plant in Granbury, Texas, and acquitted them of all charges.

In response,

• “In Granbury, Marathon has pledged to conduct a sound study and take steps to reduce noise, like moving some computers to immersion cooling. I believe the cooling fans in Granbury are causing the noise. Extending sound barriers and planting trees will also help.”

To be clear: I’m fully in favor of small towns being able to decide what businesses they want in their local communities and what rules, including noise ordinances, those businesses must abide by.

Presumably, Marathon applied for permits; they needed permission from the town council to set up a mining facility in Granbury.

What I am against are ignorant journalists like Andrew Chow, who write clickbait articles, run smear campaigns against Bitcoiners, and lead people to believe that even a dog losing its fur can be attributed to Bitcoin mining.

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