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
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.
Bitcoin mining is currently reduced to less than 10 operators. There is
relatively small number of people
Quoth John Hopkins:
> I wonder, though, about the personal lives of the miners. Are
> they enjoying the fruits of their labor?, what are their daily
> living conditions?, what kinds of stresses are incurred by their
> activities?
Vice did an interesting short film about a bitcoin mine in China a
