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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 04:52:01 JST jwz

   Bitcoin Tulips.

   Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
   https://jwz.org/b/ykdm

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     The Penguin of Evil (etchedpixels@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 05:02:39 JST The Penguin of Evil

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     @jwz Sadly he's still doing better than a lot of data centres who haven't managed even this level of joined up thinking.

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     Willem Atsma (sn0wbl1nd@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 10:37:15 JST Willem Atsma

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     @jwz and so appropriate it should be a tulip farmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania?wprov=sfla1

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 10:37:15 JST jwz

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     • Willem Atsma

     @sn0wbl1nd YES. I KNOW.

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     ednl 🇪🇺 (ednl@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 16:59:58 JST ednl 🇪🇺

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     @jwz Strange that you couldn't find a source as per the article. Goes to show compartmentalised Google results for different languages are. I found two in Dutch from the same local (provincial) broadcaster, one already linked in the thread but that wasn't about greenhouses. This one is, and it's from half a year earlier, May 2022 https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4085845/zo-wordt-een-bitcoin-computer-gebruikt-om-bloemen-te-kweken

     And a third one from the "Flowers & Plants News" trade publication, about a test of the same thing from Nov 2017! https://www.bpnieuws.nl/article/8013058/welke-tuinder-wil-er-in-de-bitcoins/

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 19:40:38 JST 翠星石

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     @jwz >GPUs
     >Bitcoin
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     Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 20:52:52 JST Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

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     @jwz I wonder whether this will prove more profitable than installing heat pumps? Only time will tell, I suppose.

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     Miss Megaphon (megaphon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 23:49:25 JST Miss Megaphon

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     @jwz the tulip Farmer's Name is de Groot

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 04:14:05 JST jwz

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     The blockings will continue until Well Actualism decreases.