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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Even if that's their strategy you're not guaranteed a return when mining. If you or your cluster don't mine the block all of that energy was absolutely wasted. If we didn't have a shitty ass isolated grid we could just sell the energy to another part of the country.