Chinese Internet Cafe Owners Deal With the Pandemic Crisis by Using Their Fac...

Chinese Internet Cafe Owners Deal With the Pandemic Crisis by Using Their Fac...

The Coronavirus pandemic has driven people to take advantage of new business lines to deal with the economic crisis, and cryptocurrency is once again a headliner. Internet cafe owners in China are using their facilities to set up crypto mining farms after temporarily shutting down in 2020. Owners Are Earning Around $6,200 Monthly According to Sina, quoting a recently published report, almost 13,000 internet-fueled cafes that operate 24 hours a day, are depending on their high-end computers to mine digital assets, as their PCs were originally conditioned for gamers. Some of them claim to....


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