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Kahn: Greenidge earns 8x more mining Bitcoin than supplying grid power
“And the majority of the money they're making is not when they're putting power onto the grid, when they're, where they're making the most money is what's going on behind the grid. And you know, their revenue disclosures It was, you know, essentially almost a, …”
Kahn: Greenidge provides a blueprint for private equity to resurrect fossil plants
“It's absolutely possible that those plants could come back just like Greenwich did. And that, I think, is the biggest concern here is that if you are a Bitcoin mining company, if you are a private equity firm, if you're a venture capitalist, You can be looking…”
Kahn: Decentralized mining incentivizes cheap fossil fuels over Big Tech net-zero goals
“When it comes to these big tech companies, like Google, for example, like they want to get to net zero. They want to get to a hundred percent renewables. That is like a centralized decision that Google is making for crypto and for cryptocurrency mining in part…”