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 I'm in Texas visiting family and was talking about all the bitcoin mining here. tried to convince people how great it was for the grid. started looking up articles and found this. what is your guys take on this. says miners buy power "before the meter" for cheap and sell it back to the grid at a lot higher price. 
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/10/texas-bitcoin-mine-noise-power-grid-cryptocurrency/