{"id":13468,"date":"2015-02-14T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2015-02-07T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:15:00","slug":"a-rare-look-inside-a-massive-bitcoin-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/a-rare-look-inside-a-massive-bitcoin-mine","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Look Inside A Massive Bitcoin Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Biggs \u2014 TechCrunch<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8kua5B5K3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/> Bitcoin mining is not a pretty business. It requires lots of specialized servers that are essentially unusable for normal computing and lots of cooling. But when you bring thousands of miners together in the same room, things really get ugly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/chinas-biggest-secret-bitcoin-mine?utm_source=motherboardyoutube\" target=\"_blank\">Motherboard<\/a> has some fascinating footage of a <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/bitcoin%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">bitcoin<\/a> mine in Liaoning Province, China. The mine, set up in an unused factory, is a snakes\u2019 nest of wires and high-powered fans, a sort of high-tech server farm that is so resource-intensive that it has to be optimized to a fault.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/02\/06\/a-rare-look-inside-a-massive-bitcoin-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Biggs \u2014 TechCrunch Bitcoin mining is not a pretty business. It requires lots of specialized servers that are essentially unusable for normal computing and lots of cooling. But when you bring thousands of miners together in the same room, things really get ugly. Motherboard has some fascinating footage of a bitcoin mine in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}