- A new academic paper titled “The rise of biohacking: Tracing the emergence and evolution of DIY biology through online discussions” analyzes the #hplusroadmap and DIYbio mailing-list archives, highlighting one of nmz787’s 2011 Google Groups threads on open-source biology tools.  
- The authors manually “scrolled” more than 200 times to retrieve >6,000 topics because they apparently could not obtain the raw mbox archives, prompting channel members to question the rigor of the study’s data-collection method.  
- Discussion of China’s crackdown on Bitcoin mining notes that miners are rapidly relocating containerized rigs to Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan; participants argue this could bring much-needed capital and infrastructure to impoverished regions.  
- A cited statistic claims that the Bitcoin energy cost of producing one Tesla Model 3 generates ~400 t of CO₂ versus 8.85 t for manufacturing and driving the car, leading to debate over whether journalists understand that bitcoins are reusable and most were mined under lower historical difficulty.  
- Georgia (the country) is identified as an emerging low-cost hub for cryptocurrency mining following China’s restrictions.