Mining cryptocurrency requires enormous amounts of computing power and electricity, both to keep the digital calculations going and to cool the machines doing the work.
Scores of the operations have popped up in recent years across the United States. When a mining computer lands on numbers that bitcoin s algorithm accepts, the payout is currently worth about $250,000. The more computers an operation has, the better chance of earning the payout. The industry is often criticized for its vast energy use often a boon for the fossil-fuel industry and noise is a common complaint.
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