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Terrahex wants to build Bitcoin mines around Nigeria’s stranded power

It's a bet already being tested elsewhere on the continent, from flare-gas mining in Bayelsa, southern Nigeria, to Ethiopia's hydroelectricity-powered Bitcoin mining, and its outcome could determine whether energy-rich but grid-poor parts of Africa get to participate in the global crypto compute boom, or keep exporting the opportunity…

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