Recent coverage of bitcoin mining in Plattsburgh: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/economy/bitcoin-electricity-productivity.html https://www.nytimes.

Recent coverage of bitcoin mining in Plattsburgh: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/economy/bitcoin-electricity-productivity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/economy/bitcoin-... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498776 Gives you a sense of what the mayor was thinking in the weeks leading up to this. (And makes you wonder if the NY Times reporter's prodding is what got them around to actually banning it.)