In Ethiopia, Chinese Bitcoin Miners Find a Xanadu: Next Africa
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam offers abundant cheap electricity for Bitcoin miners.
Photographer: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP/Getty Images
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If any country can lay claim to being the perfect home for Bitcoin mining, it may well be Ethiopia.