Brooklyn Bitcoin Mine Causes Static for T-Mobile Users

People have been speculating about how someone can turn a profit with power rates in NYC. It’s highly likely that this guy rents an apartment that comes with power, or he rigged a connection to an outlet in the common area.<p>I had friends who used to run hydroponics rigs in their apartments (for veggies!), it made sense because their landlord footed the bill.<p>The only electricity cheaper than hydro, is electricity where someone else pays the bill.

I wonder if it wasn&#x27;t the miner at all. Maybe the guy had an (illegal) cellphone jammer as well, and somehow managed to convince the feds that it was his antminer causing the trouble.

As a ham radio operator, this sort of thing is <i>extremely</i> common. Most cheap Chinese power supplies tend to broadcast a lot of noise.<p>Nowadays, it&#x27;s mostly impossible to operate the short wave bands in a city due to all the static on the air. The regulation agencies have pretty much given up, save for the most egregious cases, due to how prolific the problem is.<p>It&#x27;s pretty sad.

Instead of shutting it down couldn&#x27;t he put the miner in a faraday cage?

I presume this was only messin&#x27; with the folks next door or something? Could a device like this impact t-mobile in a meaningful way? If it was just one or two customers, t-mobile managed to get the FCC to actually go find this thing??

Somehow it doesn&#x27;t surprise me that Bitcoin mining hardware is generating harmful RF interference.<p>If I was a miner, I&#x27;d be quite worried that someone with direction finding equipment could easily discover a hidden mining location. The FCC or another government entity finding you is kind of the best case scenario if you think about it... :)

It bugs me people think you need proof of work to run blockchains.

A single S5 caused the interference? Something doesn’t add up with this story.<p>A fleet of Antminers, perhaps, but even that would be unlikely.<p>Edit (addendum):<p>Details about the stock unit’s noise output; Antminer S5 runs at 61 to 65 dB at 4 feet. Modified S5 with a higher-quality fan dropped the measured sound intensity to 48 dB[0].<p>Follow-up Edit:<p>I just noticed that I’d clipped a section of my response...which would have made it clear that my doubt was that the S5 put out emissions that interfered with T-Mobile. I referenced sound later, but only intended that to be a point of reference.<p>Whoops!<p>——-<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;review-bitcoin-asic-miner-bitmain-antminer-s5&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;review-bitcoin-asic-miner-bitmain-antmin...</a>