A sleepy Texas town is set to reinvigorate the local economy thanks to a multimillion-dollar project to build a cryptocurrency mining and data center in place of a recently closed coal fire power plant. Bitmain Goes West Who would have imagined that cryptocurrency mining would be the key to making a former coal mining town in America great again? That’s exactly what is happening in Rockdale, Texas, a small Central Texas town of 5,861 thatRead MoreThe post Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Has Big Plans for Small Texas Town appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.