Inside a Bitcoin Mine at a Natural Gas Well In Texas

At the border of Texas and Louisiana, an oil rig sits on a grassless patch, tucked between lush forest. In oil-heavy Texas, where regulations on the industry are notably lax, rigs like this one can often be found flaring—burning off surplus natural gas that’s extracted alongside oil stores. Shooting flames into the sky, those blazes are usually burning methane, a greenhouse gas, and a cocktail of carcinogens like benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene, for starters.

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