Vietnamese Internet cafe becomes cryptocurrency mining farm

The owner of the Vietnamese internet cafe Star Computer repurposed the business for Ethereum mining.

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The idea came to the entrepreneur after the number of visitors to the computer club noticeably fell due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m changing the business season: profits higher than from the main activity,” he said.

The farms are built around GPUs. One of the rigs consists of eight GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 SG gaming graphics cards.

The Internet cafe is owned by a computer store, which may explain access to scarce equipment.

Earlier, ForkLog reported that, due to a shortage of discrete graphics cards on the market, Ethereum miners began assembling farms from gaming laptops. A build of 20 machines based on GeForce RTX 3060 is capable of generating almost $77,000 per year.

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