Quite interesting. What's to stop the bitcoin pool from consolidating into a few key players as difficulty to mine progresses? There's no way that the miners are spending >250k/mo and pushing bitcoins back into the system. Wouldn't this hypothetically consolidate wealth in the hands of those with enough capital to create monstrous factories like this?
I wonder about the effects of such establishments on the Bitcoin ecosystem as a whole. In theory, they're supposed to strengthen the network by providing more hashing power. But what worries me is the onset of mega-pools composed of such factories that will gain >51% of the network's computational power effectively gaining a monopoly on Bitcoin.
The cables snaking everywhere and the old hardware piles give me flashbacks to <i>Serial Experiments Lain</i>.<p>All they're missing is some chrome and neon, and we're living the cyberpunk dream.
I wonder how much effort they've put into optimisation? Small gains (1-2% rather than order of magnitudes) for these guys obviously mean a lot more than for any bedroom operation.
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