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The City That Banned Bitcoin Mining (1x23)

Air date: Apr 13, 2018

On March 15th, 2018, the city of Plattsburgh in upstate New York issued an 18-month moratorium on cryptocurrency mining. Plattsburgh is part of a long-standing power agreement that gives the city an allotment of some of the cheapest electricity anywhere in the world, but a recent influx of cryptomining companies and their energy-draining rigs have raised power prices at the expense of the general population. The ban is meant to be a temporary arrangement, but it could potentially end all cryptomining investment in the city.