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HERE THEY COME 🏦
BREAKING: Telecom Giant and T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Plans to Mine Bitcoin

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Here’s some pretty big news for you…

Telecommunication giant Deutsche Telekom, (parent company of T-Mobile) announced that it has been running a Bitcoin node since 2023.

Speaking at Bitcoin Prague, Dirk Röder Head of web3 infrastructure at T-Mobile had this to say:

“Since 2023, we [have been] running a Bitcoin node and we are running Bitcoin Lightning nodes as well.”


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But it doesn’t stop there…

Dirk Röder closed out his presentation with the following:

“With a heart full of… pride, I would like to let you in on a little secret; we will engage in digital monetary photosynthesis soon.”


Dirk Röder
If you’re like us you’re probably wondering what on earth “digital monetary photosynthesis” even means. 🤨

Well the host also had the exact same question and asked Dirk to clarify:

“Is T-Mobile mining Bitcoin?”

Dirk replied “We will”.

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That is HUGE.

T-Mobile is one of the largest US telco’s with a market cap of ~$208 billion.

And now they’ve decided to join the Bitcoin mining game…