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Square CEO Dorsey Says Looking to Build a Bitcoin Mining System: Tweet
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Jack Dorsey, then-CEO of Twitter, attends the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami on June 4, 2021. (Marco Bello/AFP via Getty Images)
By Reuters
10/16/2021Updated: 10/16/2021

Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals as well as businesses.

This would add to Square’s existing bitcoin-focused projects including a business to build an open developer platform, as well as a hardware wallet for the cryptocurrency.

“If we do this, we'd follow our hardware wallet model: build in the open in collaboration with the community,” Dorsey said on Twitter.

A team led by Square’s hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, will investigate requisites for Square to take on the project to build a bitcoin mining system.

In his Twitter thread, Dorsey also said that silicon design or chip design is too concentrated in a few companies, leading to supply constraints.

Shares of Square were up about 1 percent in extended trading.

On Friday, bitcoin topped $60,000 for the first time in six months, since China’s crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, as hopes grew that U.S. regulators would allow a futures-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), a move likely to open the path to wider investment in digital assets.

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