>Earlier this week, Hydro-Quebec warned that there won’t be cheap power available for every company that wants to set shop in the province and suggested it may set a higher tariff for cryptocurrency miners. On Friday, the government -- the utility’s owner -- questioned the companies’ contribution to the province’s economy.
>“If you want to come settle here, plug in your servers and do Bitcoin mining, we’re not really interested,” Premier Philippe Couillard said at a conference in Montreal Friday. “There needs to be added value for our society; just having servers to do transaction mining and acquire new bitcoins, I don’t see the added value.”
OH NO NO NO NO NO NOO
Charles Phillips
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Ian Anderson
thats communism for you
Carson Russell
Makes sense. It is far more useful to the local economy if a factory that employs people uses the cheap electricity. This has no effect on Bitcoins price though.
Grayson Gray
>Couillard has no balls
Jordan Watson
because bitcoin contributes so much to our society right?
Angel Rivera
>There needs to be added value for our society; just importing shitskins that don't work and increase criminality, I don’t see the added value.
Ethan Davis
Why did you enslave niggers when machines could have picked cotton faster?
Chase Flores
Fuck tax revenue and shit. Goddamn Canadastan.
Isaac Powell
It's a waste of electricity and nothing else. A bad shitcoin too.
Mason Peterson
It sucks, but understandable.