Fort Worth is the first city in the U.S. to mine bitcoin, and will run mining rigs out of city hall
• https://www.cnbc.com by MacKenzie SigalosFort Worth is getting into the crypto mining business, albeit in a small way. Each of the program's three machines will consume the same amount of energy as a household vacuum cleaner, according to city estimates.
This is nothing but a new, hidden tax. The city gets the Bitcoin, and the taxpayers pay for the roughly-equivalent cost in electrical power to mine it.