In mid-January, a massive winter storm swept across the United States, dropping temperatures in Central Texas into the low 20s and causing Texans to huddle indoors with their heaters running full blast. The Texas power grid creaks and groans when it’s put to the test during extreme weather events and sometimes it goes down leaving citizens out in the cold. However this time the power stayed on and it was in large part due to an unexpected recent phenomenon: Bitcoin Mining. Bitcoin miners turned their operations off to redirect power back to critical infrastructure & reduce stress on the Texas grid. (Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council, recently wrote about how there…

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