News Be careful out there this summer!

[Ken g6]

Lack of Adequate Cooling Causes Brain Damage in Bitcoin Miner

This guy always has interesting breakdowns on how people’s body’s fail and end up in the ICU. In this case (from several years ago) the patient ran so many bitcoin rigs in his room during a heat wave with no air conditioning that he suffered heat stroke and brain damage.

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Maybe it's a good thing we're on a break from challenges and sprints and such.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Some may argue, running "so many bitcoin rigs in his room during a heat wave with no air conditioning," that he may have already had brain damage.

Jokes aside, 'tis sad to hear. I have suffered heat exhaustion before (pre-cursor to stroke), during the Summer of 1990 in FL, during boot camp for the Navy. A different animal to be sure. I think I drank every ounce of water my 50 some fellow recruits had remaining over the course of a 90 minute class after a PT session, before my body finally decided to stop pouring sweat like a severed artery spills blood.

 

[StefanR5R]

Something completely unrelated, hot off today's German press: The number of suspected cases of money laundering has increased in Germany by 50 % from 2018 to 2019, according to the annual report of Financial Intelligence Unit, the federal agency responsible to pursue such cases.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I was probably in my late 20's before I realized that washing a few bills by accident in your jean's pocket wasn't a Federal offense.