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More than 200 long-time Wikipedia editors have requested that the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting cryptocurrency donations. GorillaWarfare is Molly White, a Wikipedian who has become something of an anti-cryptocurrency activist. According to one widely cited estimate, the bitcoin network consumes around 200 TWh of energy per year. If the foundation complies with the community’s request, […]
Each of the three trailers released so far has been better than the last, so we have high hopes for this film. As I’ve written previously, The Suicide Squad is not a direct sequel to the 2016 film; Gunn has said he wanted to take the franchise in a new direction and introduce new characters. Rick […]
A mysterious Green Knight disrupts the festivities and proposes a different kind of exchange: any one of the knights may strike him with one blow with his axe; in return, the Green Knight will come back in a year to return the blow. Gawain is caught between two competing codes: the code of chivalry demands […]
A significant portion of Greenidge’s electricity no longer powers nearby homes or businesses; rather, the plant’s smokestacks are increasingly pouring pollutants into the atmosphere in the service of mining bitcoin. By the end of this year, it plans to have 18,000 specialized machines mining bitcoin, and with the recent approval of its data center expansion […]