Rural Texas community fails plan to become a city to curb BTC miner noise

Residents of a small area in Hood County have attempted to form a municipality to exercise authority over a Bitcoin mining site they claim is generating excessive noise.

Residents living in a small area of Hood County, Texas, have failed in their bid to become a new municipality in an attempt to regulate noise from a nearby Bitcoin mining facility.

According to a report from The Texas Tribune published on Wednesday, only 38% of 138 voters were in favor of the proposal to create “Mitchell Bend,” a proposed tiny municipality covering a two-square-mile community of approximately 600 people. 

For around three years, locals have complained that MARA’s 60,000 Bitcoin miners have disturbed the community due to the loud noise of the machines, which play a role in securing Bitcoin’s $2 trillion network.

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