Farmer, Miner, Builder, Trader: Re-humanizing the distributed infrastructures of Bitcoin

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the exchange center of bitcoin mining equipment, we can see advertisements indicating that the stores which sell these instruments also offer depository service for these devices. The buyers can easily select their preferred machines and ask manufacturers to deliver them to the target mining farms, without physically interacting with them. Moreover, big mining farms even launch a service that allows participants and investors to rent computational power. Mining farm platform as Miningrigrentals (MMR) lists more than ten benefits for renting hash power from it. The platform claims that customers can maximize profits and minimize risks, due to the fully automatic configuration, the artificial intelligent adjustment algorithm, and the extremely user-friendly interface. We l c o m e t o t h e f a s t e r, s m a r t e r, more powerful way to rent or lease cryptocurrency mining rigs. Whether you're new and want to try mining out before you buy equipment or you're a veteran looking for more hash at a coin launch, MiningRigRentals.com is your one-stop website. Our service has been developed from the ground up by miners for the mining community. Choose an algorithm to get started! 34 [34] Miningrigrentals, “Miningrigrentals” May 10, 2019. https://www. miningrigrentals.com/

Mining at this age soon becomes a jargon that only the farm operators and senior players understand – we even don’t need to know what it exactly means. All we are concerned is the number that keeps increasing in your bitcoin wallet mobile application, indicating what these mega mining infrastructures have done for us. We constantly wish that the number will eventually exceed what we have paid for renting the hash power. Yue Wu SMARCHS Urbanism 2019 65


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