to be decided on Nostr: https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/ On the one hand, reads not so ...
https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/
On the one hand, reads not so funny:
> On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute; her blood pressure spiked into hypertensive crisis; her skull throbbed. “It felt like my head was in a pressure vise being crushed,” she says. “That pain was worse than childbirth.”
> ..
> “The European Environmental Agency tells us that everything above 55 decibels is making us sick,” he says. The fact that the Granbury Bitcoin mine is emitting 70 or even 90 decibels on a nightly basis is “like torture,” he says. “The most spectacular cardiovascular diseases will develop. They have to stop the machines.”
On the other hand: the world is full of avoidable man-made noise pollution. In no way is this Bitcoin-exclusive issue.
I'm wondering: why did Marathon Digital Holdings set up this Bitcoin mine so close to residential areas? You'd think that Texas has enough cheap unused land far away from anyone who could feel disturbed and still close enough to power infrastructure and a road.
On the one hand, reads not so funny:
> On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute; her blood pressure spiked into hypertensive crisis; her skull throbbed. “It felt like my head was in a pressure vise being crushed,” she says. “That pain was worse than childbirth.”
> ..
> “The European Environmental Agency tells us that everything above 55 decibels is making us sick,” he says. The fact that the Granbury Bitcoin mine is emitting 70 or even 90 decibels on a nightly basis is “like torture,” he says. “The most spectacular cardiovascular diseases will develop. They have to stop the machines.”
On the other hand: the world is full of avoidable man-made noise pollution. In no way is this Bitcoin-exclusive issue.
I'm wondering: why did Marathon Digital Holdings set up this Bitcoin mine so close to residential areas? You'd think that Texas has enough cheap unused land far away from anyone who could feel disturbed and still close enough to power infrastructure and a road.