Bitcoin for Muscovites

Photo report with the legendary automobile plant, where the Internet Ombuds mines "Digital Gold"

The best way to make a profitable enterprise of the Russian automobile industry is to abandon the idea of ​​manufacturing and assembling cars. The freed areas and resources must be operated according to the formula of Satoshi Yakomototo, the mysterious creator of the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin. That is exactly what the entrepreneur and Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev did. On the territory of the legendary Moskvich plant (now it is the Innopolis "Moscow"), he created the largest digital mine in Russia.

Video: Gleb Limansky, Nadezhda Mironenko / "New Gazeta"

Even if this equipment was not mined, it could be used with great success as the scenery for Star Wars. Video cards on racks set by circles are noisy. It’s not up to conversations - it is still impossible to hear each other. Yes, and there are almost no people: everything is automated. The wires leading to the racks are neatly laid. As in a starship, green and blue LEDs are eager. In the center of each circle, air vortices - coolers work, another part of the equipment in water cooling.

Now there are two circles on the farm and a mobile closed car clogged with video cards. The third circle of the farm at the launch stage.

People are only ten people. Their work is purely manual: they do not trust the machines for mining equipment.

For Marinichev Mining-Ferma, this is an engineering experiment and testing of new equipment. The Internet Ombuds sees the future for the fact that production will find another, domestic use. For example, mining equipment with water cooling will be able to warm the house, simultaneously performing mathematical calculations for which you can receive remuneration in cryptocurrency. These calculations will be sold for the whole world.

Dmitry Marinichev

Internet Ombudsman, entrepreneur

- Russia has a good prospect here. Consider that every citizen will be able to sell one barrel of oil abroad. Is it bad?

We are the only ones in the world who came up with a combination of the Date Center and the work of mining equipment. All my life I have been building complex engineering solutions, I know almost everything about the data centers. We came to the conclusion that excess and backup power supply of such centers can easily be used in mining systems. The company pays for very large electricity bills, and the price in Moscow is incommensurably more expensive than in other regions, but for us this site is relevant: it has been extremely centralized, and the capital is the center of economic decisions. This does not work differently.