https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epx3q7/fort-worth-texas-to-mine-bitcoin-in-city-hall-after-trade-group-donation > Fort Worth, Texas just became the first municipality in the country to start mining Bitcoin out of city hall. > The city council approved a resolution on Tuesday to accept three Bitcoin mining rigs from the Texas Blockchain Council, a non-profit industry trade group. In doing so, it’s become the first in the U.S. to run a pilot program in which the city government will quite literally be mining Bitcoin twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.