Spice Haven Sichuan is Quickly Becoming China’s Bitcoin Mining Capital
China’s province of Sichuan is known for its spicy food flavors. Now, though, it’s becoming known as something else: a bitcoin mining capital. It was in 2013 that China was first thought to have discovered bitcoin and since then the country has been making up for lost time in mining the digital currency. What, though, has that got to do with the province of Sichuan? Well, according to the China Money Network, since 2015, over 30 percent of China’s bitcoin mining machines have been purchased from the Sichuan province. Considering that around 70 percent of bitcoin’s global computational....
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