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![Whinstone US CEO Chad Harris points to where Bitcoin mining machines will go during a tour at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 10, 2021.]()
Texas’s crypto mining boom is starting to look more like a bustEnergy costs and competition lead some cryptocurrency companies to bankruptcy and default.By David Pan and Naureen S. Malik
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![A postal worker walks past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Australia's central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point to 3.1% as it continues to battle inflation.]()
Australia's central bank raises key interest rate to 3.1%WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia's central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point to 3.1% as it continues trying to wrestle down inflation. The increase was the...By NICK PERRY
![A currency trader passes by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the exchange rate of South Korean won against the U.S. dollar at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Stocks were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday after Wall Street pulled back as surprisingly strong economic reports highlighted the difficulty of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation.]()
Asian shares lower as strong data hit hopes for dovish FedBANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday after Wall Street pulled back as surprisingly strong economic reports highlighted the difficulty of the Federal Reserve’s fight against...By ELAINE KURTENBACH
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![Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on November 18, 2022 in San Jose, California. Holmes appeared in federal court for sentencing after being convicted of four counts of fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors in her company Theranos, which offered blood testing lab services.]()
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![Elon Musk recently floated the idea of opening a second Twitter headquarters in Texas.]()
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![Power lines run to a Bitcoin mining facility in Texas.]()
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![The conservative banking start up co-founded by Candace Owens lasted only a few months on the market.]()
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![Lee Bratcher, president of nonprofit trade association Texas Blockchain Council, makes the opening remarks at the Texas Blockchain Summit in Austin on Nov. 17, 2022.]()
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![File - The FTX logo appears on home plate umpire Jansen Visconti's jacket at a baseball game with the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Minneapolis. The new CEO of the collapse cryptocurrency trading firm FTX, who oversaw Enron’s bankruptcy, said, Thursday, Nov. 17, he has never seen such a “complete failure” of corporate control. John Ray III, in a filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court for the district of Delaware, said there was a “complete absence of trustworthy financial information.”]()
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![FILE PHOTO An oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 13, 2022 in Odessa, Texas.]()
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![The Texas Utility Help program has been reopened for low-income Texans to apply.]()
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![Anwar Almojarkesh (L) and Alan Chalabi (R) from England take a photo at Meta (formerly Facebook) corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California on November 9, 2022. - Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in "the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history," boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday.]()
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![File - The FTX logo appears on home plate umpire Jansen Visconti's jacket at a baseball game with the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Minneapolis. Embattled cryptocurrency exchange FTX, short billions of dollars, is seeking bankruptcy protection, Friday, Nov. 11, following its collapse this week.]()
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![FILE - The Twitter logo is seen on a cell phone, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. The “official” designation for major corporate accounts on Twitter appeared, vanished, and depending on the account, appeared or vanished again and some companies took to the social media platform to warn of imposters.]()
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![Texans will be paying off the cost of 2021's catastrophic winter storm for the next 30 years.]()
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![Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden held a campaign rally for Pennsylvania's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro and Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, in Philadelphia.]()
