China has one of the biggest BitCoin “mines” in the world!

10th September 2018

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[Today I discovered that there are big BitCoin “mining companies”, and one of the biggest is found in China. BitCoin is a cryptocurrency. In order to “mine” or “discover” a new Bitcoin, you have to use a complex software algorithm. The complexity is the key to stopping an over-production of BitCoins. Bitcoins are designed to become ever more complex to “discover”. So people even build special computers to process through the numbers ever faster. Bitcoin mining thus becomes ever more expensive. Currently, every day in the world, they discover only 18 Bitcoins! There is some concern over whether newer hardware and software could overcome the Bitcoin algorithm. But so far this has not happened. Bitcoin is the King of cryptocurrencies! Jan]

One of the world’s largest bitcoin mines is located in the SanShangLiang industrial park on the outskirts of the city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region that’s part of China. It’s 400 miles from China’s capital, Beijing, and 35 miles from the the city of Baotou. The mine is just off the highway, near the intersection of Latitutde 3rd Road and Longitude 3rd Road. It sits amidst abandoned, half-built factories—victims of an earlier coal mining boom that fizzled out, leaving Ordos and its outlying areas littered with the shells of unfinished buildings.

The mine belongs to Bitmain, a Beijing-based company that also makes mining machines that perform billions of calculations per second to try and crack the cryptographic puzzle that yields new bitcoins. Fifty Bitmain staff, many of them local to Ordos, watch over eight buildings crammed with 25,000 machines that are cranking through calculations 24 hours a day. One of the buildings is devoted to mining litecoin, an ascendant cryptocurrency. The staff live on-site in a building with a dormitory, offices, a canteen, and a repair center. For recreation, they play basketball on an unfinished cement court.

Bitcoin mining consumes enormous amounts of electricity, which is why miners seek out locations that offer cheap energy. The Ordos mine was set up in 2014, making it China’s oldest large-scale bitcoin mining facility. Bitmain acquired it in 2015. It’s powered by electricity mostly from coal-fired power plants. Its daily electricity bill amounts to $39,000. Bitmain also operates other mines in China’s remote areas, like the mountainous Yunnan province in the south and the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the west.

Despite the costs, bitcoin mining remains a lucrative industry. At the current bitcoin price of about $4,000 per bitcoin, miners compete for over $7 million in new bitcoins a day. The more processing power a mining operation controls, the higher its chances of winning a chunk of those millions. The Ordos mine accounts for over 4% of the processing power on the bitcoin network—a huge amount for a single facility.

Quartz visited the mine in Ordos on Aug. 11.

The Bitmain mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, has eight buildings containing mining machines. One of them is dedicated to litecoin and seven mine bitcoins. An additional building is inactive.

Racks of litecoin-mining machines in the Bitmain unit dedicated to litecoin.

Power cords and their fuse box inside a bitcoin mining unit.

Racks of bitcoin-mining machines inside a mining facility.

Leftover tubing and cables lying on the ground between two mining units.

A bitcoin mining machine with its battery on a shelf.

A worker monitors operating status of bitcoin-mining machines.

Workers clean the shelves of bitcoin-mining machines.

Industrial suction blower fans can be found all along the side of the mining units. They’re used to increase the airflow inside the building and lower the temperature.

The administrative office of the main building.

Packing materials from mining devices fill up a warehouse on site.

A worker fixes a component on a mining machine.

Workers prepare to bring fixed machines back to the mines.

The exterior of one of the mining units.

A worker monitors operating status of a machine.

The massive switch to one of the many power transformers on the mine. These are hosted in buildings separate from the mining machines.

A set of keys used to get access to the transformers on site.

A local citizen of nearby Ordos, recent college graduate Hou Jie, 24, is a maintenance worker at the mine. He shares this dorm room with seven other employees.

A cook prepares dinner in the kitchen of the main building.

Workers enjoy their dinner in the dining hall.

View of one of the buildings in the compound.

Correction (Aug. 21): Xinjiang is in the west of China. A previous version of this story incorrectly said it was in the east.

Source: https://qz.com/1055126/photos-china-has-one-of-worlds-largest-bitcoin-mines/

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