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Bitcoin Mining Consulting Firm Sabre56 Raises $35M to Build 150MW of Hosting Sites
The company is moving into the hosting business and says it already has a "waiting list" of clients.
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El Salvador Plans to Open 'Bitcoin Embassy' in Texas
The Central American country wishes to open a bitcoin embassy in "new ally" Texas, Mayorga said on Twitter, to aid "expansion of commercial and economic exchange projects."
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CDCROP: Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)
Core Scientific to Hand Crypto Mining Rigs to NYDIG to Extinguish $38.6M in Debt
NYDIG had previously said it would object to a $70 million lifeline loan for Core if its own deal wasn't finalized.
CDCROP: Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Prime Trust Consensus Booth (Prime Trust)
Crypto Custodian Prime Trust to Cease Operations in Texas at End of January
The firm withdrew its Texas Money Transmitter License application but says it intends to reapply "swiftly."
Prime Trust Consensus Booth (Prime Trust)

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)
Argo Blockchain's Bitcoin Mining Margin Widens Most in at Least a Year
December production fell 26% as Argo powered off during a Texas storm.
Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

U.S. snow storm road scene
Bitcoin Miners Powered Off as Winter Storm Battered North America
Computing power on the Bitcoin network dropped about 40% over the weekend.
U.S. snow storm road scene

CDCROP: Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)
Inside Core Scientific’s Prearranged Bankruptcy
The world’s biggest publicly traded bitcoin miner filed for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday. Here’s more details on what that means.
CDCROP: Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Bitcoin miners are offered to help stabilize Texas power grid. (Illustration: Yunha/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Miners Offered Way to Cut Texas Electricity Usage to Help the Grid
The state's interim, voluntary program to lower power consumption during high demand periods, might go live as early as Jan. 1, 2023.
Bitcoin miners are offered to help stabilize Texas power grid. (Illustration: Yunha/CoinDesk)

Bitcoin Is Southern (Pete Alexopoulos/Unsplash)
US Prosecutors Charge 21 Alleged ‘Money Mules’ With Using Crypto to Launder Proceeds of Cybercrimes
The arrests are the result of a multi-year investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, the Postal Inspection Service and the Department of Justice.
Bitcoin Is Southern (Pete Alexopoulos/Unsplash)

CDCROP: Former FTX CEO Sam-Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Sam Bankman-Fried Called to FTX Hearing by Texas Securities Regulator
The Texas State Securities Board has been investigating FTX US since October.
CDCROP: Former FTX CEO Sam-Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)