re: Natural gas producers in TX paying people to take supply as prices sink deeper negative

Yep. Poland is currently hurting for energy as is Germany. If we had the infrastructure to get more of it from here in Midland to Europe, those prices would be way higher (and there wouldn’t be near as many flares burning extra bright every night).

As to the bitcoin mining stuff, I’ve talked with a few mining entities that want to take advantage of it, but it the payoff doesn’t make up for the capital required to set it all up.