morlockelloi on Wed, 2 Dec 2015 19:22:10 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> ***SPAM*** Re: de Jong, Lovink, and Riemens: 10 Bitcoin


This concern also applies to other lowly workers in data mining industries (which is really the only thing going on in data centers today.)

Colocations (one 'l') are cold, noisy, often locked down to the point where one needs an escort to go pee, there are surveillance cameras all around the place, you are lucky if you can find a broken chair, and there are no girls.

On 11/30/15, 13:09, John Hopkins wrote:

This info from the morlock & elloi and the previous poster raised the
question in my mind -- a question that is *not* facetious -- of the
conditions that Bitcoin miners are working under.


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