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Cryptocurrency mining gives some rural Texas counties an economic boost - The Texas Tribune

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Jacob Rodriguez was driving a John Deere tractor in a West Texas cotton field when he received a phone call that would change his life.
“I was pulling a 59-foot air seeder … and at the same time I was on the phone having my interview,” Rodriguez, 29, said.
On the other end of the phone early this year were representatives from a new business that was coming to Dickens County, a community of around 2,000 people an hour east of Lubbock.
By March, Rodriguez had quit farming cotton — something he called “just another job” — and began training to work in a cryptocurrency mine.
The county had exactly what London-based Argo Blockchain was looking for: plenty of open land and easy access to affordable power, thanks to a large wind farm built there more than a decade ago.
Texas political leaders have been promoting the state as a destination for companies producing bitcoin and other...



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