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- Forbes said it had identified the sites of four secret, state-owned Bitcoin mining facilities in Bhutan.
- The publication used satellite imagery to identify the sites.
- El Salvador is the only other country known to operate state-owned Bitcoin mining facilities.
The Kingdom of Bhutan has secretly developed a series of bitcoin mining facilities, a Forbes investigation has revealed.
Using satellite imagery from Planet Labs, Satellite Vu, and Google Earth, as well as sources with knowledge of Bhutan's crypto investments, the publication said it found the sites of what appear to be four crypto-mining facilities that have never been publicly disclosed.