An Appalachian town was told a bitcoin mine would bring an economic boom. It got noise pollution and an eyesore. - Yahoo Canada

Supporters of the crypto plant promised an expanded tax base and job creation. What residents say they got was the constant din from massive computers and equally massive cooling fans.

Instead, the noise came to themin April last year when the Tennessee-based firm Red Dog Technologies opened a plant in Limestone to mine (or create) new bitcoin, the original and still-largest crypto… [+11841 chars]

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