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Yeah I think it starts with taking a

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proactive approach and not kind of hiding behind

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things and letting this misinformation kind of permeate

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throughout the region.

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We've been having a lot of town halls

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and active dialogue we've built a website specifically

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to answer questions and we gamified a little

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bit of it so that people of all

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ages and all backgrounds can kind of really

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understand the truths and the myths behind this.

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I think one of the things that we've

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been very clear on pointing out is at

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a local level we have not gone in

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and asked for tax abatements or rebates in

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these local cities and so as you think

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through personal property tax both real and tangible

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personal property there's going to be significant tax

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revenue generated for these local communities to be

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able to invest in their school system and

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their emergency systems in the government and those

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pieces there and so I think that's been

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really important.

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I think the other thing is you know

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in that town in particular we've had the

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head of that utility go on record and

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say the reason why your electricity rates have

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not risen over the last three years is

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because DarkHorse has been operating in our town.

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They've been a very good partner of ours

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and they acknowledge that we've been a very

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large rate payer as we've been running the

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Bitcoin mining and the hosted and so I think

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that's been a big opportunity to really get

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out there and explain you know the the

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truths behind this the good and what the

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benefit can be for the communities.