Block is on a Bitcoin mining and wallet hiring spree

Payments firm Block is on a hiring spree to build out its Bitcoin mining and wallet hardware businesses. The company is hiring heads of Bitcoin mining policy, communications, and partnerships, according to several job postings published to LinkedIn over the past two weeks.

The test hub, according to the ad, will “host Block’s mining hardware and will be used to test the hardware and software and the overall operational issues (power, cooling, dust, restart, performance monitoring, connectivity to pool) of the mining system.”. the firm said its mining team develops “bitcoin mining ASIC, bitcoin mining rig, and associated systems, software and infrastructure.”.