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Somewhere in very rural northeast China lies a dusty and dirty factory where the deafening roar of machinery leaks from an armada of Bitcoin mining rigs. Inside the secret north China Bitcoin mine. Copyright Jacob Bitsmith of The Coinsman - used with permission. Heat is blasted out of the vents in the crude concrete citadel from dozens of fans that whip up a torrent to cool Bitcoin rigs slaving away at algorithms to earn their owners the much sought after crypto-currency.
Jacob Smith last name given as Bitsmith , the editor of The Coinsman, travelled to the undisclosed location to document life inside one of China's more grimy Bitcoin mining farms. The facility was life for three full time staff who ate, drank and slept between patrols of the factory floor to ensure the machines kept ticking over. They returned home one day a week. The noise was deafening: Jason said the sound of the fans could be heard outside the farm and seemed bone-shattering from within.
Hardware obsolescence was rampant with piles of retired Avalon Bitcoin rigs littering the grounds. The Chinese factory was a cruder cousin of modern elite operations such as a secret shipping container-sized facility located 13 kilometres outside of Hong Kong. That small facility, detailed by independent journalist Xiaogang Cao, cooled its 92 blade servers -strong Bitcoin miner fleet not with fans but using silent open bath immersion technology from vendor Allied Control.
The kit was required due to kW power restrictions on site. Bitcoin trading in China remains active but has dropped this year after a late surge of new users interested in the currency, BTC China chief executive Bobby Lee told Reuters. Unleash the potential of all-flash storage in your Data Center with Huawei. The Register - Independent news and views for the tech community. Part of Situation Publishing. Join our daily or weekly newsletters, subscribe to a specific section or set News alerts.
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