“Right-to-mine” crypto laws are making their way across the U.S.
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Marketplace Tech
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Marketplace
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audio
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News
Technology
Publication Date |
May 20, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:11:13

If you drive 45 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas, you’ll come across a facility packed with thousands of computers trying to “mine” the next bitcoin. The popular cryptocurrency’s value recently shot past $60,000 per bitcoin. Mining those bitcoins is a lucrative operation, and several crypto mining outfits have moved to the state since the passage of the Arkansas Data Centers Act last year, also known as the “right-to-mine” bill. Similar bills giving crypto mining operations protections from local regulations have popped up a couple of states. But it turns out residents don’t particularly welcome many of these operations. And Arkansas recently changed course and restored to municipalities the ability to regulate crypto miners. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently spoke with Gabriel Dance, senior deputy investigations editor at The New York Times, arkansas-noise-pollution.html">about the crypto mining situation in Arkansas. He explained what the biggest complaints have been since these mining operations moved in.

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