Square Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday (Oct 15) the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals as well as businesses. This would add to Square\u0027s existing bitcoin-focused projects including a business to build an open d
Square Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals as well as businesses. This would add to Square's existing bitcoin-focused projects including a business to build an open developer platform, as well as a hardware wallet for the cryptocurrency.
"If we do this, we'd follow our hardware wallet model: build in the open in collaboration with the community," Dorsey said in a tweet. A team led by Square's hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, will investigate requisites for Square to take on the project to build a bitcoin mining system. In his Twitter thread, Dorsey also said that silicon design or chip design is too concentrated into a few companies, leading to supply constraints.On Friday, bitcoin topped US$60,000 for the first time in six months, since China's crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, as hopes grew that US regulators would allow a futures-based exchange-traded fund , a move likely to open the path to wider investment in digital assets.
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