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 I really like to but mining a 25.000€ bitcoin in Germany cost >50.000€ (plus hardware, rent, staff, insurance,....)
North America looks like the best place to set up mining operations, it is a technologically advanced region, good infrastructure, has affordable and stable electricity, is a functioning nation and so forth. Energy prices will only go up in Europe, there will be no European mining operation except proof of concepts or for educational purpose in the foreseeable future. I say the North American bitcoin mining industry keeps growing. 


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Data for the map collected in March 2022  
 You know what the crazy thing is? I drove from Berlin on the A9 towards Nuremberg at the weekend, one wind farm after the other along the highway. Although there was no calm, it felt like only half of them were spinning (I guess to avoid overloading the grid). The other half could be used for mining and I don't understand why the wind farm lobby doesn't get involved and build a bitcoin mining industry.