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| Published On Jan 14, 2022 6:24 am CET | By Peter Siu

Block Announces It Is Developing an Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System

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Payments firm Block, recently rebranded from Square and known from its platform Cash App, announced to further continue its plans of building an open-source Bitcoin mining system.

Thomas Templeton, General Manager at Block, shared the news on Twitter explaining that the company “wants to make mining more distributed and efficient in every way, from buying, to set up, to maintenance, to mining.”

The tweet also revealed that Block is looking to make new ASIC mining computers and is evaluating various IP blocks, open-source miner firmware, and other system software options.

Block CEO Jack Dorsey hinted on its mining system back in October of last year and since then the company has started building a core engineering team to realize its ambitions.

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