Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

President Biden on Monday ordered a company with Chinese origins to shut down and sell the Wyoming cryptocurrency mine it built a mile from an Air Force base that controls nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. The cryptomining facility, which operates high-powered computers in a data center near the F.E. Warren base in Cheyenne, "presents a national security risk to the United States," the president said in an executive order, because its equipment could be used for surveillance and espionage. The New York Times reported last October that Microsoft, which operates a nearby data center supporting the Pentagon, had flagged the Chinese-connected…