I read the articles. It's not at all clear how bitcoin mining is actually helping here. All they're doing is adding another consumer. Two of the articles use that exact phrase - adding another consumer. So yes, it reduces emissions, but only by using the otherwise-wasted gas to power something. Are bitcoin rigs the best thing they could be powering? Seems to me they're just the most profitable way to use that excess energy ... this week. In other words, they help maintain incentives for drilling.

If you want to suggest that others be "willing to look at the facts" then please look at the facts yourself, instead of claiming they exist and then disavowing with "don't know a lot" when people actually look into them.