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Feb 2022
10m 32s

Siberia’s DIY cryptocurrency miners

Financial Times
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Sequoia Capital plans to move deeper into cryptocurrency markets and has earmarked at least $500mn for investments in cryptocurrency assets, and a global financial regulator says that policymakers must act quickly to craft rules for digital asset markets. Plus, the FT’s Moscow correspondent, Polina Ivanova, reports that Siberia has become home to a cottage industry of DIY cryptomining fuelled by cheap electricity. 


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Sequoia earmarks $500mn for push into cryptocurrency markets

Global financial watchdog calls for ‘urgent’ action to contain crypto risks

In Siberia, a crypto boom made of ingenuity, defiance and DIY


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