SEATTLE TIMES - May 28, 2018: The article highlights that reduced electric rates are attracting digital currency entrepreneurs, but that three public utilities districts are reassessing how they deal with the surging demand of this new business, and whether they should even try to keep up. And that residential customers are in fear and worry that their rates might go up because of this trend.

(BattleForWorld: Years ago in the early stages of conserving energy, residents and businesses were being constantly blitzed with reminder about updating light bulbs, electronics and appliances that were energy efficient to save on electrical power usage. And at this juncture regarding how things are unfolding the question has to be asked if the energy utility companies were all in on the knowledge of the arriving crypto-currency businesses and that they would have to reroute energy demands from residents to start and expand the crypto-mining business sector.)

The article notes that entrepreneurs earn Bitcoin by decoding increasingly complicated mathematical problems established by the shadowy creators (BattleForWorld: The American intelligence community.) of the digital currency. The process, which the industry calls mining, involves trillions of computer calculations, 24/7 nonstop of electrical usage that sucks up huge amounts of power!

And as a result residents are starting to take note of what is going on and the trend. The article goes on to say that the public hearings for rural electric utilities were once rarely attended events, but that crowds are showing up in Wenatchee, Washington at hearings about Bitcoin mining in Chelan County where the gathering was so large that the utility staff had to open a second room with a video feed for the overflow.

And most certainly utility companies will be paying attention to all this drama about crypto-currency mining gobbling up massive amounts of electrical energy.

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