Plattsburgh NY bans Cryptocurrency mining.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/1...urrency-mining
18 months, the people seem mainly concerned that it does not create jobs.
My take: Of course it doesn't create human jobs, that's the point - the point is to create something that can do massive floating point calculations so that you don't have to employ humans (assuming that someday, crypto money can be directly used as a point system for FLOPS) Employ 100 NASA engineers for two years to calculate another moon mission, or ask the AI and get the exact same results in five seconds.
Luddites that want to weave 400 thread count sheets by hand. Americuh!
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