Outside Moscow, One Man’s Bitcoin Farm Has Saddled Dozens With Electricity Blackouts, Debt

… , but by the four-hour electricity cutoffs that begin at noon … computers hummed and churned out electricity as they solved cryptographic puzzles …

from Electric Power News http://bit.ly/2WutBqM


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