Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine <br /> <br />In October of last year, Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China. <br /> <br />This is the infrastructure that keeps the digital currency’s decentralized network up and running, and its operators are profiting big time. <br /> <br />The mine we visited is just one of six sites owned by a secretive group of four people, part of a colossal mining operation that, as of our visit, cumulatively generated 4,050 bitcoins a month, equivalent to a monthly gross of $1.5 million.
