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Remember like three years ago when crypto bros were trying to sell us this big story about how they were going to be friendly demand response players who could accelerate the energy transition by balancing load with supply? (I didn't bite.) Then how it turned out they were running 24x7 and keeping coal plants running that would have otherwise retired? And then how the DOE started tracking their energy consumption? Well, now the crypto bros are blocking DOE. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24079048/bitcoin-crypto-mining-energy-department-electricity-survey-restraining-order