Texas Grid Tariffs and the Changing Economics of Flexible Mining
Explore how Texas peak tariffs, battery competition, and emerging AI flexibility reshape Bitcoin mining economics and grid cost allocation.
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Analysis of Bitcoin mining economics, energy use, grid integration, hardware, and industry developments
Bitcoin mining and nighttime electricity prices in Texas
Explore how a Texas study links Bitcoin mining entry to higher nighttime wholesale prices, while leaving demand flexibility unresolved.
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How mining economics changes Bitcoin energy estimates
Explore how mining economics can shift Bitcoin energy estimates when the active hardware fleet must be inferred rather than observed.
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Bitcoin mining as infrastructure: a conditional case
Explore how a conceptual study links Bitcoin mining to grid flexibility and settlement security under specific conditions.
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Bitcoin mining as an operational hedge for wind farms
Explore how Bitcoin mining acts as an operational hedge for early-build wind farms, increasing modeled project value and reducing downside risk.
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Chinese courts, Bitcoin mining, and public order doctrine
Explore how Chinese courts use nonbinding policy documents and public order doctrine to invalidate Bitcoin mining contracts in civil disputes.
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Materiality and uneven development in bitcoin mining
Explore how bitcoin mining creates crypto-regionalism, tethering digital finance to post-industrial energy grids and exposing uneven development.
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Bitcoin energy use - a framework
Explore how Bitcoin mining incentives, energy mix, security, and system boundaries shape credible environmental research.
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Bitcoin mining using landfill gas - model code
Python code replicates results and reproduces Figures from Rudd et al. 2024. An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production
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Bitcoin Mining at the Energy Edge
The July 7, 2026 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Stephen Barbour describing Bitcoin mining as flexible load for upstream energy production.
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Off-Grid Bitcoin Mining and Data Sovereignty
The February 27, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Way features HODL Tarantula explaining how modular, off-grid Bitcoin mining infrastructure monetizes stranded energy while avoiding grid and regulatory chokepoints.
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Gold, Silver and Bitcoin in a $350T Debt World
The February 24, 2026 episode of Kitco News features Frank Holmes assessing how a $350 trillion global debt overhang is reshaping demand for gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
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