Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/bitcoin-mine-biden-ban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.-HOx.CAXy68XUJz-C&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.co

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/bitcoin-mine-biden-ban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.-HOx.CAXy68XUJz-C&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/bitcoin-mine-biden-ban... ... and initial paragraphs: > Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base > An investigation identified national security risks posed by a crypto facility in Wyoming. It is near an Air Force base and a data center doing work for the Pentagon. > President Biden on Monday ordered a company with Chinese origins to shut down and sell the Wyoming cryptocurrency mine it built a mile from an Air Force base that controls nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. > The cryptomining facility, which operates high-powered computers in a data center near the F.E. Warren base in Cheyenne, “presents a national security risk to the United States,” the president said in an executive order, because its equipment could be used for surveillance and espionage. The executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/05/13/order-regarding-the-acquisition-of-certain-real-property-of-cheyenne-leads-by-mineone-cloud-computing-investment-i-l-p/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...