As the bitcoin craze continues to unfold, a member of the Russian parliament wants to build a new city in Siberia to take advantage of cheap energy costs there in order to “mine” it and other cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin mining is the computationally complex process of verifying transactions and adding them to the public ledger, known as the block chain. Running the computers for high-volume mining requires vast amounts of electricity.
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