Cryptographic and meat for bitcoins: Forbes took a photo essay on cryptocurrency in Irkutsk

Photographer Anton Klimov, specially for the Forbes magazine, prepared a report on the everyday life of the crypto community in Irkutsk, Russia.

The development of mining in Siberia is due to low electricity tariffs and long winters, which save on cooling of cryptocurrency farms.

Source of cheap electricity – Irkutsk hydroelectric station:

Novo-Irkutsk CHP provides the activities of numerous miners who build their farms in the buildings of empty factories, shopping centers, houses, offices and even garages.

Graffiti in the center of Irkutsk based on a video about bitcoin mining by local “Amazons” on Baikal, made in 2017.

Entrepreneur Maxim Matrenitsky. Attracts foreign investment in mining, plans to open a tokenized fund in Malta.

Bitcoin enthusiast Yuri Dromashko owns several farms and leads the crypto-capital YouTube channel. In July 2018, unknown persons abducted 28 ASICs from him, after which he turned for help in capturing thieves to spirits and shamans .

GPU mining in the office of the system administrator of one of the Irkutsk offices.

"Cryptovedism" Svetlana Serebrennikova. He is engaged in coaching and gives advice for which he accepts payment in bitcoins.

Musician Artem Galanov on the set of the video "Crypt". The song tells about his unsuccessful Bitcoin investment experience.

Kryptohudozhnik Irina Malashkevich. Drew nine cryptokartin, two of which sold for 1 ETH.

Buying meat for bitcoins in the central market of Irkutsk. Cryptocurrency is also accepted in some cafes, in a barber shop, a hotel, a flower shop, at a gas station.

Cryptodom and its creators Dmitry Tolmachyov and Ilya Frolov. Such a house is heated by working processors of the miners and earns a mortgage for itself.

The Irkutsk entrepreneur and crypto-anarchist Konstantin Lagutin has more than 8,000 miners in control and has his mining pools. Actively promoting the idea of independence from the state and fiatnyh money.

"Irkutskenergo" Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. At the end of 2018, the company announced a competition for the long-term lease of a land plot for the creation of “data centers and mining”. Deripaska plans to earn one billion rubles on miners.

Earlier, the BlockchainJournal published a photo report from the largest mining farms in China .

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