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In late 2021, 20-year-old Rueben Tauk asked his father for £50,000 ($67,000 at the time) to invest in YouTuber Logan Paul’s crypto project, CryptoZoo. Paul, one of the most famous influencers in the world, described CryptoZoo as a game in which you could hatch and breed hybrid NFT animals that would gain in value over time. More than a year later, Tauk and his father have lost almost all of that investment. CryptoZoo still does not exist as a game, and as of the day of publication, the value of its tokens has plummeted to less than a hundredth of its August 2021 peak._  by [Andrew R. Chow](https://time.com/author/andrew-r-chow/)  ## Andrew R. Chow Correspondent Updated: Jan 19, 2026 11:11 AM UTCPublished: Feb 1, 2024 5:25 PM UTC  Cheryl Shadden, a resident of Granbury, hung a sign on her street to protest the noise from a nearby bitcoin facility. Cheryl Shadden, a resident of Granbury, hung a sign on her street to protest the noise from a nearby bitcoin facility. Cheryl Shadden  by [Andrew R. Chow](https://time.com/author/andrew-r-chow/)  ## Andrew R. Chow Correspondent Updated: Jan 19, 2026 11:11 AM UTCPublished: Feb 1, 2024 5:25 PM UTC Every night, the nurse anesthetist Cheryl Shadden lies awake in her home in Granbury, Texas, listening to a nonstop roar. “It’s like sitting on the runway of an airport where jets are taking off, one after another,” she says. “You can't even walk out on your back patio and speak to somebody five feet away and have them hear you at all.” The noise comes from a nearby bitcoin mining operation, which set up shop at a [power plant](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/decimal-digital-currency-launches-bitcoin-142317676.html) in Granbury last year. Since then, residents in the surrounding area have complained to public officials about an incessant din that they say keeps them awake, gives them migraines, and seemingly has caused wildlife to flee the region. “My citizens are suffering,” says Hood County Constable John Shirley. Granbury is one of many towns across the U.S. feeling the negative impacts of bitcoin mining, an energy-intensive process that powers and protects the cryptocurrency. Those impacts include carbon and noise pollution, and [increased costs](https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/the-us-wants-to-know-how-much-electricity-crypto-miners-use/) on consumers’ utility bills.According to the [New York _Times_,](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html) there are 34 large scale bitcoin mines across the U.S. In 2022, the crypto market tumbled, in part due to high-profile collapses of crypto companies like [Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX](https://time.com/6330323/sbf-trial-biggest-bombshells/). But in 2023, prices rebounded once again, and mining companies decided to expand their operations in order to cash in, causing global energy consumption for mining to [double](https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/bitcoin-mining-energy-use-doubled-in-2023-as-crypto-prices-rose-79854382), according to one study. Critics say that mining is causing both long-term environmental damage, due to its energy use, as well as local harm. “We’re at a loss here,” Granbury resident Shadden says. “We want our lives back.” --- Bitcoin is so energy-intensive because it relies on a process known as proof-of-work. Rather than being overseen by a single watchdog, bitcoin is designed to disperse the responsibility of the network’s integrity to voluntary “miners” around the globe, who prevent tampering through a complex cryptographic process that consumes a vast amount of energy. Over the last few years, Texas has become a global leader in crypto mining because miners can access cheap energy and land there, as well as benefit from friendly tax laws and regulation. Bitcoin miners [consume about 2,100 megawatts](https://www.reuters.com/technology/despite-industry-headwinds-bitcoin-mining-booms-texas-2023-03-23/) of the state's power supplies, and companies like Riot Platforms and Marathon Digital Holdings have recently expanded in the state. (Other states, conversely, have pushed back on the industry: In 2022, New York imposed a moratorium on bitcoin mining over concerns that miners were overusing renewable energy resources.) ### More From TIME In December, Marathon [paid $178 million](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/19/2798469/0/en/Marathon-Digital-Holdings-Enters-Definitive-Agreement-To-Acquire-Multiple-Bitcoin-Mining-Sites-for-179-Million.html) to purchase bitcoin mines in Kearney, Nebraska and Granbury from Generate Capital. But with the Granbury purchase, Marathon also inherited a swath of angry nearby residents across Hood County whose lives have been upended by the mining facility. Generate Capital started operating the 300-megawatt facility, which sits about an hour southwest of Fort Worth, in 2023\. Initially, many residents were unaware what, exactly, was causing the noise. Shannon Wolf, who lives about 8 miles from the plant, first assumed that the rumble was coming from a nearby train. “It has woken me from a dead sleep before,” she says. The rumble, it turned out, comes from the [massive cooling fans](https://www.hcnews.com/stories/granbury-us-bitcoin-corp-erects-24-foot-soundproofing-wall,21717) that the facility runs to keep their computers from overheating. Data centers, like bitcoin mines, also run massive cooling fans that have [drawn the ire of nearby residents](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/10/data-centers-northern-virginia-internet/). As residents learned what had caused the din, social media platforms like NextDoor and Facebook flooded with complaints. “This sound has been driving me to the point of insanity. I have continuous migraines, I can barely get out of my head, vomiting, nosebleeds, painful knots on my scalp,” wrote one commenter. “All the birds have left, only \[buzzards\],” wrote another poster. As complaints swelled, local officials brought their concerns to the site’s operator, US Bitcoin Corp. Over the summer, the company agreed to [construct a 24-foot sound barrier wall ](https://www.hcnews.com/stories/granbury-us-bitcoin-corp-erects-24-foot-soundproofing-wall,21717)on one end of the property at the cost of $1 to $2 million. But while the wall reduced sound in some areas, it actually amplified it in others. “To be honest, the complaints have gotten louder for us since the mitigation efforts,” Constable John Shirley says. Shirley says that he is monitoring the decibel levels of the facility. Texas state law stipulates that a noise is considered unreasonable if it exceeds 85 decibels. For comparison, vacuum cleaners[ often run at around](https://www.mdpi.com/2624-599X/3/3/35) 75 decibels—and a [cardiologist told TIME](https://time.com/5135279/noise-pollution-increases-heart-risk/) in 2018 that chronic exposure to anything over 60 decibels had the potential to do harm to the cardiovascular system. Shadden took her own readings at her house near the Bitcoin mining facility that reached 103 decibels. But the maximum penalty for breaking that Texas law is a $500 fine, Shirley says, adding: “The state law is inadequate.” He says that he has been talking to the county attorney’s office about options for recourse. “If we have a repeated violation problem, he will be looking into potential injunctive relief,” he says. The community’s ire boiled over at a town hall on Jan. 29, hosted by Shirley and Hood County Commissioner Nannette Samuelson. About 75 people filled the room to complain about the facility. Complaints from attendees included migraines that required trips to the emergency room and a vertigo diagnosis. One attendee said she had been forced to put her chihuahua on seizure medication. Others claimed that their windows rattled from the vibrations, and that the noise made their homes unsellable. “How does Hood County benefit from having such a ridiculous thing?” asked one woman. “What does this community gain from having them there?” Charlie Schumacher, the vice president of corporate communications at Marathon Digital Holdings, wrote in an email to TIME that the company was unaware of the noise issues when it purchased the site. He said Marathon was commissioning a third party to conduct a sound study as early as next week. And on Feb. 1, three days after the town hall, Marathon announced that it planned to take over full day-to-day control of the Granbury mine from its previous operators. “Marathon deeply values our relationships with the communities in which we live and work, and we appreciate the candid input our neighbors have shared with us in recent weeks,” he wrote. "Our team will now have more influence over the sight and can hopefully have a more positive impact for the community. We are in constant touch with local officials and working with community leaders to gain more information about the situation and to work on solutions. US Bitcoin Corp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. --- While the constant noise has become a major irritant in the county, residents also worry about the facility’s impact on their power supply and the surrounding environment. Texas has a notoriously fragile grid that becomes strained in cold weather: a 2021 deep freeze caused [millions of people to lose power.](https://time.com/5940491/texas-power-outage-climate/) Wolf Hollow II, the gas plant that supplies the Granbury bitcoin mine with energy, failed during that crisis. This year, parts of Texas were hit with a [frigid arctic front](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2024/01/12/texas-prepares-for-arctic-front-with-bone-chilling-temperatures-and-chance-of-snow/) in mid-January, with temperatures dropping into the teens. The state’s grid operator, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), asked Texans to conserve electricity. The grid held up under strain, and Wolf Hollow continued to operate at full capacity, as did the mining operation. Nevertheless, some residents in rural Hood County lost power. That included Hunter Sims, who lives a mile and a half from the plant and lost power for 9 hours, relying on a backup generator for his well. Sims was angered that he was without power while the mining operation continued unabated. Overall, he says his quality of life has worsened due to the facility’s noise pollution. “When I’m sitting in my living room, I can hear a loud humming,” he says. “You can’t really relax.” A representative for Constellation Energy, the company that runs Wolf Hollow, said that any power outages were not a result of any issues at the plant, but rather on the local level of transmission or distribution. **Read More:** [_Fact-Checking 8 Claims About Crypto’s Climate Impact_](https://time.com/6193004/crypto-climate-impact-facts/) Erik Kojola, a senior Climate Research Specialist for Greenpeace USA, says he’s monitored similar complaints from residents near new bitcoin mining centers across the country, in Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, and upstate New York. He also contends that bitcoin mining poses a much larger threat to the environment. “Bitcoin mining is essentially a lifeline for fossil fuels,” he says. “It's ultimately creating a new industrial scale demand for energy at a time where we need to be reducing our energy use.” Back in Granbury, the discomfort caused by the plant is causing some consternation for a region that largely prides itself on being pro-industry and anti-regulation. “I agree with people having the right to own a business if it’s not illegal or amoral,” says Granbury resident Wolf. “But when you’re harming a group of people, there needs to be some type of remedy.” **Correction, Feb. 2, 2024** _A previous version of this story misstated when the Wolf Hollow II power plant failed. It failed in 2021; it did not fail during a 2011 storm, though a separate but nearby plant, Wolf Hollow I, did._ _The story also mischaracterized how the Texas grid performed in mid-January. Some individuals lost power, but the grid held up._ ## Transcript I wouldn't say, I would not say I'm a crypto leader. I'm an innovator and that's for sure. And I always try to Take a model that is working and do it just a little bit better which is what I've gotten really good at. This is Logan. Paul. Paul is one of the best-known influencers on the planet makes videos boxes rather successful podcast and an energy drink business. But at the moment Paul is being hit with legal action from fans who claimed, he defrauded and misled them over the past two years, Paul has dedicated a massive amount of time to building a vast crypto. Empire rally, his millions of fans to invest into whatever, he believed, the next big thing in cryptocurrency many have not gained but lost money. This is the story of Paul's crypto rise and fall. Over the past decade thousands of new crypto tokens games and entities have been created out of thin air. Promising big returns for investors in the summer of 2022. Logan, Paul started promoting a crypto projects on his impulsive podcast. Just four million subscribers on YouTube. Does Zoo part is not just a token of the game that can earn its players money and this project that I have is that fresh take September 1st crypto Zoo. Co I'm going to tease it. That's all I'm going to say about it now it's it's so fun. It provides a yield with a token can earn you money. I think my games going to make make some waves Paul told Forbes suppose this could be one of the biggest things I do. On its launch day on September 3rd, 2021 10000 basic sold out within minutes. I wasn't fond of Loganville to go next like I just enjoyed what you miss content and yeah, he watched his podcast religiously pretty much and I heard him mention he's making his game he kind of know. He just dropped a little hand. Sounds exciting. So I advise you that first try. 30000 at the store I'm stupid enough. I decided to invest more. I've been speaking to my dad and I was brainwashed. You know? I was like Logan pools is trustworthy guy even if it floods jacked is starting right now. I know I think it's going to do really well and I'm excited to be part of it. So I know. Yes, I invested a move from, like, sores from my family and that was like, fifty thousand pounds. I basically get to quit mocking push from this space guy, that's there. So world renowned, and it will take off, and if the game is at any good at, it can make you money. It could be something up. You know, I can play on the side next bit of money, my kids can have a guy because if it does, bring them into a kid-friendly, investors, believed it never really worked the price is tanked almost immediately after people put money in, Logan would said that. It was his main passion project, mostly abandoned it. If we get with the community ever, everything was just It was always something wrong. No doubt that would ever hit to just buy you nothing. No questions were answered promptly and very kind of convicting game to be played in April 2022 with cryptozoology time interviewed. Logan Paul. His other crypto Endeavors involve. Do you encrypt all these days minimal super minimal I get the occasional like monthly check in. It was a project that turned a little backwards cuz of some Bad actors, which is a shame because I really like the concept and I'm like, okay. Something you didn't turn out the way I expected to. Let's let's let's fix. It was do the best we can and let's keep going cuz like I don't have time to look back, man. If I was just focus on my mistakes, I'd be nowhere Paulding back because before trip to the zoo is part of another failed, cut their project and that one was called Dick doing. In early 2021 as crypto prices started to Skyrocket, Logan, Paul sensing opportunity, begin buying and selling entities and in June 2021, all told his followers to buy into a crypto Telegram. Play Logan, Paul. What the fuck are you doing here? I'm doing the same thing as you holding my, doing normal Market investment. The value of me and coins as defined by how much people believe in them. But I'm like, stocks or national currency, there's very little regulation of crypto and also very little real world value, underpinning them when someone is popular is Logan Paul signals his interest in the project to put their money into it to what Logan Paul didn't mention was that he himself was a founding member of the project. The project leader was Paul's roommate, Jake broido, I live with Logan. Paul at I have for a long time and I went through this whole crypto experience with Logan, he's my best friend. To be honest with you, Steven I was chilling with Logan and and we were like what do stupidest name we could think of for my new coin, right? We like doing, oh my God and it just came alive like Logan designed the character on his phone on Snapchat Logan and I are being very cautious about how we All this out to ensure that you know that chart is our reputation. Logan said, the thing to him was an amazing investment opportunity but he had a major stake in it, two and a half percent of the initial set of tokens and while he was promoting it on social media, claiming he was holding on to his steak at the token to keep its value. High watching evidence shows that an unnamed crypto wallet was rapidly selling off to dig token and then sending those winnings for the hundred thousand dollars straight to Logan. Paul's public wallet did not know you have to respect. What I'm asking is that I'm I'm not going to talk about things like at the middle of 2020 to call clean the he reformed and then you put the mistakes of dick going in crypto Zoo behind it. Now we start promoting not just an entity but a whole Market Place full of them, liquid Marketplace. Liquid Marketplace sells Collectibles like Pokemon cards, sports trading cards. And then, at ease, while those items can be worth millions on their own, liquid allows you to own a steak, and a card for, as little as $0.10, I do care about the collectible industry. And I want to see as many people own tops your assets as possible. And this being the vehicle to that made made perfect in our call in April 2020, to Signal his commitment to liquid in his growth, especially as compared to crypto Zoo. There's a lot of dark people in it and in the space that we kind of had to work around, but if you find the right people in the right teams, like when I found a Ryan and in the gang at liquid, I was like, okay, these guys have a great head on their shoulders. That's that's where I am now. Focusing and prioritizing my energy. I'm always I'm always super enthusiastic to prove people wrong or that I that I that I can do it all. Marketplace began dropping as time. Went on liquid Marketplace, laid off, several members of its team. Paul has not tweeted about liquid Marketplace since July or posted in the liquid Marketplace Discord since May and liquids Discord investors have been begging Logan to come back but to no avail By the end of 2022, Mini Coopers do holders were still holding out. Hope that the project would come to fruition. But in December, everything changed. When the YouTube journalist coffeezilla published a three-part series exposing the founders misdeeds, huge public, backlash ensued but Paul's eventual, apologies were too little too late for most triples. You investors will be going to file a mass arbitration action with the attorney Tom Carter. We are going to file our first batch of cases in hopes that maybe Logan Paul's legal team will reach out to us and say, okay yeah, we understand that. Maybe we have a big problem here, maybe they can work to a quicker resolution to get these victims compensated in a reasonable time. And each arbitration Parker made several claims against cryptosrus Founders, including fraud Express breach of contract negligence for the people who lost money in crypto Zoo, they want compensation but also for Paul to acknowledge his role in harming. Many lives from the world. It was just a bit misleading. Logan Bethany has that part to play in the fact that he broke the people laugh. Like, when we purchased into the game because we trusted Logan pool in my Dodge to also kind of got involved, you know. It was a serious like him up money 10. Like he's not Wealthy by any means greedy. I would hope that Logan Paul has some of the real situation but he's caused by not everyone I can but like what he wants someone from his hometown to lose. How much money if I can. 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