Bitcoin Mining is Big Business in Montana: US Senator Works to Safeguard Industry

Bonner and Butte, Montana are home to 2 of the most significant bitcoin mining facilities in North America. They’re subject to some significant energy producer from the state. Bitcoin mining has become such a windfall for the state economy, one of its representatives, Senator Steve Daines, openly worried its own crypto gold ore could be killed by final of this plant.
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“Since the requirement for Bitcoin miners increases and supply of inexpensive reliable electricity from coal production decreases,” Senator Daines explained through a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting in Washington, DC, “this might pose a danger of this growth of Bitcoin creation and much greater danger to electricity supply and prices to Montana as a whole.


Bitcoin Mining is Big Business in Montana: US Senator Works to Protect Industry
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