The Last Cheap Watt: Where Bitcoin Mining Goes When Data Centers Take the Grid

Fonte: International Business Times

Dmytro Demidko/Unsplash For most of its history, Bitcoin mining followed a simple map: find the cheapest electricity, connect the machines, and let the Bitcoin network decide the rest. The rule worked because miners were unusually mobile. A facility could move where power was underused, stranded, seasonal, or politically available.