You know that this comparison is not right either.
I know I'm going to piss a lot of people on this but when you have 18 million people eating, going to work, playing, producing stuff, doing sex, watching tv, washing clothes and microwaving popcorn, averaging each year around the same GDP as the BTC market cap and still consume less than a system that supports 400k transactions a day it's not really a fair comparison.
That is a valid argument but you can counter it by saying BTC provides more than just 400k transactions, it provides self-custody and breaks away from the centralized monetary systems, that is the actual value of Bitcoin and not the number of transactions, it would still be worth as much even if it was doing only half the transactions.
Again, even hot showers are debatable, to someone who has no access to hot water they consider that a waste of energy, but fine, let's exclude all household activities including the non-essentials, how much power do weapon manufacturies use?or those fake-ass expensive brands that only the rich buy, you will find a lot of useless industries that burn a lot more power, but then again, to many others, that won't be useless, so it is all subjective.
As you said, BTC power consumption will be self-reduced over time, there is no need for the crying that anti-bitcoiners perform everyday, some of them lobby against Bitcoin for it's environmental "damage" and don't say a word about all the militiary activites that destroy lands and nations, it is ironic.
I think this thread is getting derailed. It is supposed to be about how mining is affecting innocent peoples' everyday lives. Ruining their peace and quiet and things like that. I hope some of the people in Granbury Texas can come on this thread and update us about if the noise is still a big problem in their daily lives. From this article on Feb 7, 2024, it obviously was a huge problem...
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/noisy-bitcoin-mine-puts-granbury-residents-on-edge/ Texas Standard: I think some people know about where Granbury, Texas is – small town about an hour southwest of Fort Worth. Can you tell us a little bit more about this Bitcoin mining operation? When did you come to town? What’s it like?
Andrew Chow: It set up shop early last year. You can kind of think about it as a giant computer server farm, where they have dozens of computers running on full blast 24/7. So it creates this enormous hum.
I talked to residents who likened it to sitting on a runway and just hearing jets take off one after another. Another resident likened it to, you know, you’re just at home and there’s a vacuum cleaner running right outside your window all the time.
Well, you mentioned that some locals have been raising concerns with officials. Are they having town meetings now? What’s happening there in Granbury?
They held a town meeting last week that became standing-room-only – about 75 people coming from around Hood County just complaining viciously about the noise. And a representative of the owner of the Bitcoin mine was there, and they pledged to do better run, run tests after this – see what they can do to mitigate.
But last year, the previous operator of the plant set up this giant wall that cost over $1 million that would hopefully deflect some of the noise, but it actually just made the noise louder and kind of funneled the noise towards different parts of the region. So it’s pretty unclear what kind of mitigation efforts have been successful.so there you go. walls dont do ANYTHING.
i am going to google earth them maybe i can see what wall they built.
i can assure you
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wont work
but a solid wall surrounding the building and at least 10 feet higher than the building would force all sound upwards.
so basically they likely did a half assed method.
i agree completely that it must suck for that town.
edit
i have goggle images
i see massive set of fans which i bet are the noise issue.
and i am certain they could fix the sound bigly by making a wall that fully surrounds the mine.
the mine is 100 by 600 feet with 12 super fans pointed to the sky
to use walls amd make them work they need to be a larger rectangle say 150 by 650 by 150 by 650. and they may need to be 40 feet tall.
then noise goes upwards losing much of the sound. one wall is a joke give me time to get on a decent pc I will screen shot the mine and my idea.
here is the mine inside the power plant note the fans are massive close to 50 feet a fan and 12 of them
it think it is the 12 fans in a 100 by 600 foot building
as for a 24 wall to stop sound I guess they did this but the writing about the wall and both bing and google do not show the wall
they would need the full wall surround to work and maybe 36 feet see below
now if they did a full surround with a 36 foot wall and still had non legal sound it would mean fails of a different kind but in all cases it is just poor engineering.
your argue that the issue is btc is stupid
it would be arguing that boats and bridges are bad
and this accident occurred due to bad bridge so no harbor bridges ever
the fact is:
bridge had issues
boat had issues
and the harbor knew and did not send out 2 or more escort tug boats protect the boat and bridge
the mine in Texas has a shit design
the fix was a wall not 4 walls
in both examples greed and corner cutting was the problem
not
btc or
boats or
bridges
that's right baby
bbb is all good
and I bet you were missing the point on bridges and boats so I pointed it out.
