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Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US] (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Bitcoin is by definition controlled by those who have the power and thus the money to mine

This is actually 100% wrong, miners are not in control, they depend on the users of the network. This has been demonstrated during the block size conflict where miners tried to get their way and couldn't.