Bitmain’s new water-cooled cryptocurrecy miner is obvs ‘inspired’ by YouTube

Bitmain, the Chinese megafirm responsible for the industrialization of cryptocurrency mining, has released a new water-cooled mining rig that seemingly borrows concepts from the DIY community it stifles. The Antminer S9 has become the gold-standard in cryptocurrency mining. It’s the preferred hardware of the biggest cryptocurrency mining farms in the world. Marathon, a NASDAQ-listed company, runs 1,400 Antminer S9s in its facility. Another operation maintained by Global Bit Ventures has 2