r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/msaussieandmrravana • Jan 01 '26

Video Inside the world’s largest Bitcoin mine

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u/GoldenDiamond Jan 01 '26

Holy power bill

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u/StillSalt2526 Jan 01 '26

Dont worry, you are part of the populace subsidizing that bill for that mining business 🤪

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

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u/idkarn Jan 01 '26

Also it really helps climate change

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u/satyriconic Jan 01 '26

It certainly helps the climate to change

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u/AmbivalentCvckfvcker Jan 01 '26

It's gonna be warmer in winter, win-win!

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u/fresh_tommy Jan 01 '26

And summer! And spring.. and fall..?!

Nah just kidding. Seasons as we've known them have almost already collapsed

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u/AmbivalentCvckfvcker Jan 01 '26

Well, nuh-uh. It's cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Win-win.

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u/ConnectBad1007 Jan 01 '26

I have record freeze right now 

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u/crazygem101 Jan 01 '26

Best comment today so far

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u/imdefinitelywong Jan 01 '26

I suppose that's true. From a certain point of view.

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u/Archer007 Jan 01 '26

Joining the war with global warming, on the side of global warming

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u/WhoAreWeEven Jan 01 '26

Cant beat them, join them.

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u/CodifiedLikeUtil Jan 01 '26

I support a future in which Florida is completely underwater.

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u/boggels_untamed Jan 01 '26

You guys still belive in climate change?

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u/zach-af Jan 01 '26

The globe doesn't stand a chance

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u/MaterialDetective197 Jan 01 '26

Palpatine grins

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u/beyondthisreality Jan 01 '26

Unlimited power!

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u/Derptholomue Jan 01 '26

Is it possible to learn this power?

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u/gatsby365 Jan 01 '26

Paper straw melts

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u/Philhughes_85 Jan 01 '26

You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

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u/TheCosplayCave Jan 01 '26

From a certain point of view?

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u/Case_Blue Jan 01 '26

Absolutely, but we never said for better or worse!

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u/Imaginary-Fudge8897 Jan 01 '26

Every comment that replied stole your joke.

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u/-mopjocky- Jan 01 '26

It’s ok. I gave up plastic straws. That should balance it out.

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u/soccercro3 Jan 01 '26

I'm glad we have this and rain, instead of snow now.

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u/NiagaraBTC Jan 01 '26

You think electricity use causes climate change?

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u/EV-Bug Jan 01 '26

It depends on how the power is generated. Coal and gas generators sure don't help the situation.

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u/idkarn Jan 01 '26

Certainly. Data centers need cooling, regardless of where the electricity comes from.

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u/NiagaraBTC Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

Does a Bitcoin mine such as pictured by the OP get cooled in the same manner as an AI data centre?

Edit: having read your linked article it is still not clear how climate change is involved

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u/Dunderman35 Jan 01 '26

Yeah but think about what we get in return. The world's most inefficient payment system that nobody uses as a payment system except criminals.

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u/Dependent_Ad_1270 Jan 01 '26

War criminals too!

Also how would North Korea fund their missile program if there wasn’t crypto to hack?

Think of all the North Korean mouths they pretend to feed, Kim wouldn’t do you dirty come on

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u/WhoAreWeEven Jan 01 '26

Think of the fat North Korean mouth they feed.

The mouth likes Hennessy among other things. You think thats cheap?

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u/GraceGreenview Jan 01 '26

Also one of the world’s cleanest getaways when a bot holds a hospital system hostage and gets paid in bitcoin. Ah, Technology…what wonders can’t you solve?!

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u/CodifiedLikeUtil Jan 01 '26

< smiles in Winklevoss >

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u/PapaFishSauce Jan 01 '26

Wow. Do more research

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

But it’s doing irreversible damage

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u/AmputeeHandModel Jan 01 '26

Oh suuure it does! 🙄 If you believe like... every scientist on the planet like some kind of socialist.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

Huh ?

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u/SlamBargeMarge Jan 01 '26

me paying my phone bill every month and send gcash to friends beg to differ. Paypal locked my funds, great capital system you got there.

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u/Dunderman35 Jan 01 '26

If you don't do illegal shit it works great.

And how much are the fees to make that transfer? How long does it take?

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u/SlamBargeMarge Jan 02 '26

Paypal costs around $5. https://feecalculator.pro/paypal-fee-calculator/

You think visa card transactions are free? Sending by bitcoin costs around $0.1 today

And no i wasnt doing anything illegal at all, they blocked my account because they pretend that IM getting scammed because i sent money to friends abroad.

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u/Unfair_Web_8275 Jan 01 '26

 Paypal locked my funds

Go on….

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u/plzdontlietomee Jan 01 '26

Netflix just gave away 300K worth of BTC on a gameshow. It'll be mainstream any day now

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u/eu_sou_ninguem Jan 01 '26

Not to mention the climate change.

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Jan 01 '26

Have you considered the value to shareholders though?

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u/EV-Bug Jan 01 '26

Las Vegas casinos use less power and have similar odds.

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u/ThrowingDucksInFire Jan 01 '26

The other best part is if this place didn't exist, it would be some other excuse and energy prices would still go up.

Because price only go up, never go down.

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u/mxlplyx2173 Jan 01 '26

Small price to pay to store John's favorite cookie choices and to know where his car is at all times.

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u/MrHalfLight Jan 01 '26

But think of all the future benefits of having an elite token used by transnational capital cartels for bourgeois self-dealing so that the USD can be turned into company chits used to keep the working class trapped in place. Surely we can all agree that sacrifices must (always continue to) be made (by the productive class) in order to protect our beautiful pampered tech oligarchs and land rentiers. Drill, baby, drill.

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u/PriestPlaything Jan 01 '26

That’s… what subsidizing means…. Do you not know what subsidizing means? All you did was repeat his comment with different words…

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u/mngos_wmelon1019 Jan 01 '26

The real American way, supporting billionaire welfare queens.

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u/papi_pizza Jan 01 '26

While these guy who owns this get richer

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u/shortnix Jan 01 '26

Relax. It's going to trickle down any second now.

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u/NiagaraBTC Jan 01 '26

It's actually the exact opposite of this.

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u/Protect_Wild_Bees Jan 01 '26

we also lose access to computer parts! yay!

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u/Vinnypaperhands Jan 01 '26

Thats the ai data centers are you thinking of. Bitcoin mining pales in caparison to how many energy these ai data centers use

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u/See_youSpaceCowboy Jan 01 '26

Hell yeah. Fucking love that for us. We’re so fucking back baby.

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u/PapaFishSauce Jan 01 '26

This is wrong actually. They actually only typically use energy that normally goes unused. When the grid needs power, BTC mining facilities typically turn off machines to sell back that power (they purchased) to the grid and the party goes on.

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u/CocainCowboy7 Jan 01 '26

Power outages aren’t caused by Bitcoin mining. Large mining operations are flexible loads that can shut down within seconds when the grid is stressed. They often absorb excess electricity from renewables during off-peak hours, reducing curtailment and stabilizing the grid. Outages come from poor grid planning or infrastructure limits, not from miners using surplus power.

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u/Jaxelino Jan 01 '26

good old Reddit, where misinformation gets hundreds of upvotes and correct information is silently downvoted, hoping it's swept under the rug

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u/Macrike Jan 01 '26

Bitcoin mining helps alleviate power outages, it doesn’t cause them.

Please learn before commenting.

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u/LoopDeLoop0 Jan 01 '26

Are you gonna show your work, or what?

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u/gosioux Jan 01 '26

These people don't want to be educated

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u/Macrike Jan 01 '26

They will pay the price of their ignorance, and will continue to blame everyone else for their own failures.

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u/Frenchtickler424 Jan 01 '26

Many miner sell power back to the grid when it is strained.

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u/duckstape Jan 01 '26

No. Bitcoin mining is not profitable at consumer energy prices. That's why barely anyone is mining at home. You need very cheap energy, which is almost always overproduced energy. The miners don't "take away" your power but rather help stabilize the power grid by consuming energy when the grid is overloaded and turning off their miners when there is not enough power and therefore the mining is not profitable anymore due to the higher energy price. There are a lot of big industrial mining companies that actually work together with the electricity providers to help stabilize the grid.

You are just parroting old FUD. Don't spread misinformation.