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Last week, Quartz visited one of the world’s largest bitcoin mines, located in a decaying industrial park on the outskirts of the city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia. The mine is operated by Bitmain, one of the most influential companies in the $70 billion bitcoin economy. Bitmain operates seven warehouses mining bitcoin and one facility that mines litecoin, another fast-growing digital currency. It also contains a repair facility where workers fix the bitcoin machines. This is what it’s like to walk around the Ordos mine: The compound contains eight buildings and 25,000 mining rigs The first building we entered was the one for litecoin mining This is one of the seven buildings for bitcoin mining These are the repair rooms where more serious technical fixes are made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zek-LwGOl2o Each year, the Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo makes its return to the Edmonton Expo Centre. Each year, it brings together thousands of attendees to geek out over pop culture. Whether you have an interest in anime, sci-fi, video...

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, between 31 October and 12 November. This is the 26th  Conference of the Parties (#COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the third meeting of...