Inside a Crypto-Mining Operation - Computerphile

Ever wondered how mining operations work? Rob Morley from ORmining showed us around their setup.

This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

[SiddheshNan]

So you're the one who's taking all our graphics cards :(

[simoncarlile]

It's crazy how mining operations like this now cumulatively account for 0.5% of the world's energy expenditure.

[Aeleas]

And this is why video cards are so goddamn expensive these days.These guys buying every card they can get their hands on are keeping the prices from going down as the design ages.

[dvdragon]

A use for the heat? Melting the glaciers.

[Anvilshock]

Employ heat pumps and exchangers to heat your tap water. Invest in heat storage. Put that heat to use.

[Kilroyan]

I appreciate the look into the world of altcoin mining, even if I disagree with the practice. Will there be a follow-up to this video?

[XaL]

Do you convert altcoins to FIATs on the fly, or do you keep whatever you mined, and hope for the best?

[Brutaltronics]

how does the UK generate electricity? also how cheap is it?
nice rig BTW but didn't get too much into profitability or maintenance cost.

[DerUnbekannte]

@0:25 what's the purpose of quickly switching the coin you mine when the market is so volatile, don't you make the money at the point of sale? or do you sell the very second you mine it?

[AlabasterJazz]

So on average how profitable is a setup like that? Or in other words whats the typical startup and maintenance costs of a similar rig, and how long does it take of constant running to pay for those costs

[Ayymoss]

I'd like to see more videos like this and possibly bigger operations as such.

Very interesting and informative. Thanks!

[mrhidetf]

didnt expect long haired robert webb to explain me alt crypto mining.

[RealNovgorod]

Where is the link to the part 2 video in the end? Forgot the annotation?

[namemcnamey]

So this is one of these people responsible for the super inflation of GPUs in the last couple of years. : - (

[maxsterry]

How many 1080ti's would need to be running in the UK to raise the ambient temperature by 15* Celcius?

[BeCurieUs]

Have to say wasn't expecting people being so angry here. Like, this is a technology/computer channel...this is where content like this goes!

[brianfink]

I went to find the link to the extras video, but I couldn't find it. Is it embedded in the video? I have a smartphone.

[xMunkyChunk]

2:08 1080Ti's do up to 250W at full load and 100% power limit. No miner runs their cards at 100% power limit, usually between 70-90% as it makes almost no difference to hashrate with most algorithms and drops the power usage considerably. A 1080Ti will normally be using somewhere between 140-220W on most algorithms at 70-90% power usage.

[baklava]

this room would be such a beast for password cracking <3

I can't play my favorite video games because of you, you monster!