In Texas, US steps into China’s bitcoin boots
18 October 2021 |
11:35 am
In the quiet Texas town of Rockdale, North America's largest bitcoin mine is part of an already bustling US business now boosted by Beijing's intensified crypto crackdown that has pushed the industry west.
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