Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.
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To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.