In October of last year Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China.
This is the infrastructure that keeps the digital currency’s decentralized network up and running, and its operators are profiting big time.
The site visited was one of six sites owned by four people, part of a colossal mining operation that generated 4,050 bitcoins a month ($1.5 million)
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