{"id":36504,"date":"2021-02-16T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36504"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:40:14","slug":"vietnamese-internet-cafe-becomes-cryptocurrency-mining-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vietnamese-internet-cafe-becomes-cryptocurrency-mining-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese Internet cafe becomes cryptocurrency mining farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the Vietnamese internet cafe Star Computer repurposed the business for Ethereum mining.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When COVID attacked my country again and this was the idea of big \u200b\u200bCafeNet\u2019s crazy minds<\/p>\n<p>Hint: There are 3080 graphics cards with very nice RGB (first image)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VideoCardz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VideoCardz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/death_1125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@death_1125<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechDeals_16?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TechDeals_16<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9550pro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@9550pro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harukaze5719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@harukaze5719<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hms1193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hms1193<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kopite7kimi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kopite7kimi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3DCenter_org?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@3DCenter_org<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JokerReview?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JokerReview<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vgh16hRNDF\">pic.twitter.com\/vgh16hRNDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I_Leak_VN (@I_Leak_VN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/I_Leak_VN\/status\/1361378422316879874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m changing the business season: profits higher than from the main activity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The farms are built around GPUs. One of the rigs consists of eight GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 SG gaming graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet cafe is owned by a computer store, which may explain access to scarce equipment.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-based-miners-assemble-a-laptop-farm-capable-of-yielding-77000-in-ethereum-per-year\">is capable of generating almost $77,000 per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the Vietnamese Internet cafe Star Computer repurposed the business for Ethereum mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,46,1674],"class_list":["post-36504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ethereum","tag-vietnam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36506,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36504\/revisions\/36506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}