Crackdown on Bitcoin mining in China is a boon for Texas Bank & Insurance By Jacky Last updated Aug 3, 2021 Share John King knew his small town of Rockdale, Texas, had landed on the global crypto map when three Chinese bitcoin miners showed up unannounced at City Hall this summer. Then the calls came to the city’s Chamber of Commerce, from investors inquiring about power hookups, to hook up mining equipment they wanted to ship from China. No one had ever set foot in the western Texas rural community, which has a population of about 5,600. “I hadn’t the…