A mining farm in Norilsk earns 15 million rubles per day on bitcoins. Why was the equipment placed there?
Everyone has heard about cryptocurrency and about the most famous - bitcoin. What is it - there is a lot of information. This digital currency can be mined using computer calculations, mined (from English. mining - mining ) using blockchain technology. This requires powerful computer graphics cards or ASIC miners. Although they write that recently, mining bitcoin with small farms from simple video cards is no longer so effective.
Bitcoin chart for 5 years and for the last three months. In 2010. he had a value 0,5$. And now - about $ 35,000. Another sharp rise in value began in mid-December 2020.
How many stories when users threw out outdated computers with dozens and even hundreds of bitcoins saved on hard drives. And now they would be millionaires. I remember that I also had the opportunity to buy bitcoin for symbolic then funds. But he did not show interest in this.
It is believed that all this looks like some kind of digital pyramid or speculation. They will collect real money from the population and bring down the exchange rate (who invests in this currency with the hope to sell it at a profit after some time). But mining is another story.
I'll tell you about one company that, using powerful equipment, places mining farms in the most profitable places. One of these places is Norilsk. Why exactly there, in this Arctic city?
The main costs when operating equipment for mining cryptocurrencies are electricity and room cooling. And Norilsk is a city with a cold climate, with long winters and where summer is only a couple of weeks. There are no problems with cooling. And electricity is one of the cheapest tariffs in Russia.
The equipment here was placed by the Russian company BitCluster with an office in Switzerland (with registration there). The company is building huge mining farms. Their equipment is now located in the Ivanovo region, in Norilsk, Angarsk and in Bratsk. In Norilsk, the equipment was placed in four 20-foot containers. According to information from the co-founder of BitCluster Vitaly Borshchenko, the farm has been located (since October 2020) on the territory of the former old plant of Norilsk Nickel, which was closed in 2016.
Works on service 15 people on a rotational basis. Electricity fees for BitCluster - 2.75 rubles / kW * h. The equipment currently consumes 11.2 MW * h electricity (plans to expand to 31 MW). The volume of these containers can accommodate up to 360 units of mining equipment. Miners installed Antminer S19:
Looked at their cost. At today's exchange rate, the unit price is 250 thousand rubles and higher. Of course, if you buy them in bulk, the price will be different.
Although Norilsk Nickel issued its token on the digital blockchain platform Atomyze, it has nothing to do with this mining farm. At least officially.
This BitCluster branch is currently mining up to six bitcoins per day. At today's rate - more than 15 million rub / day (450 million rubles / month) How much is the cost of electricity? Calculated, the amount is 22.176 million RUB / month Profitability 2000%. Investments in miners (so far 150, and 360 in plans) - 90 million rub. It paid off in the first month.
We can say that BitCluster and all large mining farms are very lucky. Due to the rise in the bitcoin rate, they recouped their costs at one point (if they exchanged cryptocurrency for regular currency).
This is not the only BitCluster mining farm. The largest farm in the CIS is located in Bratsk:
The Irkutsk Region has the cheapest electricity in the country: less than 1 RUB / kW for the night tariff for the population. Here, the equipment of the mining farm is already consuming 30 MWh. Those. earns up to 18 bitcoins per day (more than 47 million rub / day or 1.4 ml RUB / month) at 66 million rub. electricity costs. No legal business is capable of bringing such money on such an area! Of course, all equipment is guarded and serviced around the clock.
But here's what it turned out to be. After looking at the information on the BitCluster website, I realized that they provide a mining hotel service (cloud mining). Those. anyone can pay for hosting or placement of purchased miners on the territory of BitCluster for mining bitcoins. In fact, rent them. But why doesn't the company itself mine cryptocurrency for itself? Maybe until December 2020. was it not so profitable? Long payback period for equipment if you buy miners for yourself?
Most likely it was. Watch a short video of the owner of a small farm on video cards, who shared his income in 2019:
Here is another mining farm in Bratsk:
Bitriver leased the workshops of the Bratsk Aluminum Smelter. And from the outside, everything looks inconspicuous, only the sign gives out. Consumption power - 30 MW * h. You can already guess how much they are earning now.
There were news when entrepreneurs illegally connected equipment to power grids and consumed electricity worth millions of rubles. But the power engineers calculated such points and started criminal cases against these persons.
Currently, with such a bitcoin rate, by investing several million rubles in the garage business, you can quickly recoup it and earn something. But where is the guarantee that such a course will be held for long enough?
There is information that of the possible 21 million bitcoins already mined 18.5 million Those. left to mine 2.5 million units. And it will be more difficult to do this every year. Equipment must be more productive and more expensive. But since it now pays off in one month of work, there will be no less people willing. The limited amount of bitcoins will lead to its even greater growth, up to 250000$ or even before $ 1 million for a unit. But someday it will all end. And the main thing for the players of this market is to get off this train on time.
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