Bitcoin uses as much energy as a small country to secure the blockchain. Is crypto mining strengthening America's power grid and hastening the transition to renewables, or propping up the ailing fossil fuel industry while making the climate crisis worse? It depends on who you ask.

Follow correspondent Alice Hines to Texas, which is quickly becoming a global Bitcoin mining hotspot, followed by a panel discussion on whether Bitcoin lives up to the promises of its biggest supporters or reflects the fears of its strongest environmental critics.

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