Make mining great again ⚒️

A team that includes Monero developers says Tari Universe will bring back the accessibility of early Bitcoin mining.

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Ryan Ozawa
August 17, 2024

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📝 What you need to know

Bitcoin mining is today dominated by large companies that run warehouses full of specialized and expensive equipment. But the team behind Tari, a new blockchain and token, is set to release Tari Universe, software that can run on any computer or laptop to mine Tari—just like the early days of mining BTC.

The Tari team includes crypto veterans from Monero, the popular but controversial privacy coin. And Tari will concurrently benefit from the Monero network.

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“You literally came to the Bitcoin Conference here in Nashville, and you had a 78-year-old former president shilling Bitcoin from the stage. If that's not the definition of a boomer coin, I don't know what is.”

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