Las Vegas was built in a desert. They turned a wasteland into a casino/competitive sports hub. I don't have the specifics on how they're able to import water to supply the city, but it can be done.
Maybe because despite being the desert , that's no desert made out of endless sand dunes and you have a lake as big as the city fed by the Colorada river just 20 miles away from the city?
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That is correct Vegas is built on sand, so is Dubai and Singapore.
Singapore is even very beautiful with so much green and they did by importing soil from other countries.
Singapore is built in the desert...omg!
Never heard of a desert with those characteristics:
Singapore's climate is classified as tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af), with no true distinct seasons. Owing to its geographical location and maritime exposure, its climate is characterized by uniform temperature and pressure, high humidity and abundant rainfall.
What if a techno city of the future forked bitcoin. Then limited mining exclusively to the city district. Allowing only city residents to mine it. That could be one path to recreating the early adopter days of crypto mining while reserving control of a crypto token inside a city or specific region's borders. The number of miner's a single party can own could also be capped in an effort to prevent it from becoming too monopolized and centralized.
Restricted mining to only selected few, closed borders, capped share and equal distribution, total control in the hands of a few.
I already have the best name for the city and the coin, with such characteristics they can be only called Pyongyang and Kimcoin, are those taken by