Bitcoin mining goes West: Why China’s crypto ban played into the US’s hands
As Bitcoin mining shifts from East to West, the US is taking the lead and is likely to see increasing investment into the sector.
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Lara Williams
Lara Williams is a senior reporter at Investment Monitor specialising in FDI in the tech and bio-pharma sectors. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent much of the past decade living in Silicon Valley.
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