Bitcoin mining consumes as much energy as a country about the size of Malaysia each year

BELFRY, Kentucky: In a ravine deep in the Appalachian mountains, Warren Rogers stands on the ruins of an abandoned coal-washing plant that used to prepare hundreds of tons of the fuel a day for transport through the tiny town of Belfry, Kentucky.

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