Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave

Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave

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As a bitcoin mining enterprise, Riot Platforms runs thousands of computers in the energy-guzzling pursuit of minting digital currency. Recently, however, the company got big bucks from Texas to lower the mining operation's electricity usage. Riot said on Wednesday that the state's power grid…

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