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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Fort Worth is serious about becoming a leading center of tech and innovation. How serious? Today it became the first city government in the U.S. to mine Bitcoin—and it’s doing it right in Fort Worth City Hall.Three S9 Bitcoin mining machines donated by the Texas Blockchain Council began running 24/7 today in the city hall’s climate-controlled IT Solutions Department Data Center, following a city council vote that authorized the six-month pilot program.“We want to make sure not only Fort Worth, but the entire state of Texas, is crypto friendly to be the crypto capital of the world,” Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said on a live Twitter feed at 2:30 p.m. today, just before plugging in the mining machines. “Here’s our big moment. Okay, we are officially mining Bitcoin in the city of Fort Worth!”With blockchain technology and cryptocurrency revolutionizing the financial landscape, “we want to transform Fort Worth into a tech-friendly city,” Parker added in a statement. “Today, with the support and partnership of Texas Blockchain Council, we’re stepping into that world on a small scale while sending a big message—Fort Worth is where the future begins.”Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker powered up the mining machines in City Hall on Tuesday. [Image: City of Fort Worth]“These small but powerful machines mark Fort Worth’s larger commitment to becoming a leading hub for technology and innovation,” Parker added.The Bitcoin mining machines at city hall are hosted on a private network to minimize security issues, the city said.Approved by city council this morningA resolution voted on by the Fort Worth city council this morning encouraged the “growth of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology companies in Fort Worth” and highlighted several things that motivated the pilot: Nasdaq.com’s reporting $30 billion in venture capital investment in the crypto space in 2021; Texas’ HB4474 and HB1576 laws recognizing cryptocurrency in Texas’ Uniform Commercial Code and establishing a blockchain master plan work group respectively; and President Biden’s March 9, 2022, executive order on “responsible development of digital assets.”Bratcher: ‘Texas is the epicenter for Bitcoin mining globally’Lee Bratcher, president and founder of the Texas Blockchain Council, joined Mayor Parker in the live Twitter feed for the pilot’s launch.“Texas is the epicenter for Bitcoin mining globally,” Bratcher said in the live feed. “And now Fort Worth is positioning itself to be the capital of Bitcoin mining in Texas. And with the vision of Fort Worth to be a city of innovation, a city of technology, attracting entrepreneurs and venture capital here, this is a great step one of many that you and your administration is taking at the city to ensure that happens.”Bratcher also expressed gratitude in a statement for the support of several of the council’s member companies, including Luxor Technologies and Rhodium Enterprises, “as they provided strategic guidance for this project.”Another day at the Bitcoin mineTo mine Bitcoin, Fort Worth’s new S9 machines dig deep into math. The three machines use sophisticated hardware to solve an “extremely complex” computational math problem. When a computer solves the problem,
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