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From one of the links [1] in this article:

> Prusak explained that one Bitcoin is equal to about $35,000 in U.S. dollars, adding that he doesn't have a specific number on how many Bitcoins the site is able to produce in a day.

> "There's a lot of math, so I can't say we make 10 a day or anything like that," he explained. "I can say that they're worth about $34,000-$35,000, and we've got, you know, tens of thousands of machines running to do that."

This really rubs me the wrong way because it’s patently untrue. It’s _very_ possible and in fact is quite easy to calculate the expected daily returns. Prusak might be dull, but I’d lean more toward deceptive. He just doesn’t want the locals to know how much he’s profiting at the expense of their comfort.

[1] https://www.hcnews.com/stories/granbury-us-bitcoin-corp-erec...



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