New “cryptophone” and crypto mining in Texas

The number of companies that are endorsing the cryptocurrencies increased and this trend will continue in the future. One of the tech companies which is actively involved in this process the Taiwanese company HTC.

This company created a smartphone for crypto owners. This is not the first smartphone which is for crypto lovers. However, it has a feature that is not available for the HTC Exodus 1.

In 2018, HTC presented HTC Exodus 1, which is available since December. The price of this phone is $699. The Exodus 1S is cheaper and offers a new feature, which gives it an advantage over other phones.

Crypto owners, as well as people interested in cryptocurrencies, can order the HTC Exodus 1S in Europe, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Unfortunately, this phone won’t be available in the U.S.

As mentioned above, Exodus 1S is designed for the crypto owners. It can run a full Bitcoin node. According to HTC, this smartphone is the first one to offer such a capability. Full Bitcoin node means that Exodus 1S can send, confirm as well as validate bitcoin transactions.

Bitmain opened a new crypto mining farm in Texas

Crypto mining is becoming more popular around the world. For example, let’s have at the State of Texas and how the industry is developing in this southern state. Last week San-Francisco based startup Layer1 received funds to build the crypto mining farm in Texas.

The Chinese mining hardware company, Bitmain, opened the crypto mining farm in Rockdale, Texas. Based on the information, in the future, it will be possible to increase the current capacity which is 50 megawatts to over 300 megawatts. As a result, it will become the largest crypto mining farm in the world.

 Bitmain continues to develop its business in the U.S., and the crypto mining farm is the company’s third such project in the country.