There is a Museum of Bitcoin Mining History in Caracas, Venezuela

[nullama]

About a year ago, a Museum of Bitcoin Mining History was opened in Caracas, Venezuela:

the exhibition will show the evolution of Bitcoin mining since its central processing unit (CPU) origins, passing through the graphics processing unit (GPU) mining stage. Then finally arriving at the current application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or integrated circuit (IC) mining era that the industry is experiencing. One of the objectives of this museum is to increase awareness about bitcoin mining in the general population, as Joan Telo, a member of Criptoavila stated. He stressed:

We decided to take this step because, until now, there is no, or at least not publicly, place where people can observe evolution and we felt it was necessary.

Our idea is to add equipment to the museum as we get them because we want to be a world reference on this issue of the evolutionary process of cryptocurrency mining.

I think this is a very interesting idea, and I would love to visit a museum like this:



If anyone is interested in visiting(it's free), here is the actual address: F5R2+633, Final de Av. Libertador, Torre Xerox de Venezuela, PB, Altamira, Mun, Caracas 1060, Miranda, Venezuela

[DapanasFruit]

I am wondering why of all places, this good museum opened up in Venezuela...should it not be in El Salvador? Anyway, it is good to have something like this and am hoping that it can be attracting a good number of tourists or visitors to it can stay afloat in case it is not receiving any subsidy either from the government or private sector. This is one way we can be educating people on the many possibilities that Bitcoin is bringing to the humanity.

[oaz7t]

It's good, looks sleek in the photo. Yes it's perfect considering its first museum for the Bitcoin mining. However it would be interesting if they add up screens and shows the historical mining data. For example with what energy they used to mine, the rate of mining. All that virtual displays and stuff will make this museum very happening.

What do you guys think?

[dansus021]

wow now bitcoin can get more attention are they also have USB miner from the 2012.

I am wondering why of all places, this good museum opened up in Venezuela...should it not be in El Salvador?

maybe they are gonna up soon el savador   or the gov should support like this one

It's good, looks sleek in the photo. Yes it's perfect considering its first museum for the Bitcoin mining. However it would be interesting if they add up screens and shows the historical mining data. For example with what energy they used to mine, the rate of mining. All that virtual displays and stuff will make this museum very happening.

What do you guys think?

Yeah add info like this is also good

[Don Pedro Dinero]

I like the museum. The thing is that it looks more like a room than a museum, although it's not bad, I don't think you could fill a museum with things from the short history of bitcoin. I think it makes for a short visit, but hopefully over time more and bigger museums will be made available to the public.

However it would be interesting if they add up screens and shows the historical mining data. For example with what energy they used to mine, the rate of mining. All that virtual displays and stuff will make this museum very happening.

What do you guys think?

That would be a good idea.

[Davidvictorson]

Documenting history. Cool. I have added Venezuela to my bucket list. I would love to see this type of museum open up countries like the United States, Kazakhstan, Russia, Canada because they are the countries where the most bitcoins are mined.

[Mauser]

If anyone is interested in visiting(it's free), here is the actual address: F5R2+633, Final de Av. Libertador, Torre Xerox de Venezuela, PB, Altamira, Mun, Caracas 1060, Miranda, Venezuela

Looks nice the museum and would be a cool visit, unfortunately it's a bit far away for me. At the moment I don't have any plans of travelling to South America. Venezuela sounds like a nice place to make vacation with good weather and cheap food. The problem for me is that I don't speak any Spanish and it could be hard to get around only with English. A friend of mine was in Colombia two years ago and he said that almost nobody spoke English, so without at least a basic level of Spanish it seems impossible to travel there. Maybe the museum could maybe a virtual tour through the history of bitcoin mining? That would could be interesting for the many people who live to far away from Caracas.

[Text]

Why did it take another year before we saw it today?  But thank you OP for sharing here.

I would have visited the CriptoNoticias site but forbidden is coming out, I just wanted to search and see other photos taken at the museum.

Anyway, I don’t know much about hardware mining but I would be amazed to discover it to see that in front of me and have more knowledge about it.  Those close to that place are very lucky, if I were you, I wouldn't miss going there especially since it's free.

[boyptc]

I would like to visit that type of museum too. We can imagine that anyone who visits there is aware of bitcoin and you'll get to have a pal discussing about mining and everything about bitcoin once you're there.

I think those people that want to contribute a lot within their community and neighborhood that has the initiative can do the same. This is actually a good way of educating those folks that are not yet into bitcoin.

[DdmrDdmr]

It’s a private initiative from a group of established miners in Venezuela. The rather lengthy 2021 article from Criptonoticias gives a thorough description of what to expect from the Museum: cpu motherboards, GPU video cards, fpga, all sorts of asic equipment - there being an area that displays modern mining equipment for sale (probable the ulterior goal), a bitcoin asic miner pool (demo at the time and perhaps still now, since they did not have the state permission to mine there), and a crypto bar …


See (Google Translated):
https://www-criptonoticias-com.translate.goog/mineria/nuevo-museo-venezuela-mirada-historia-mineria-bitcoin/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[buwaytress]

Pretty cool. Surprised the company's been able to continue operating throughout all the mess media seems to have reported Venezuela being in (with exchanges, crypto companies and crypto itself all needing to be part of an authorised government list) unless CriptoAvila themselves are the government

Just saw they're still active too, just released what looks like an Antminer promo: https://www.instagram.com/criptoavila/

Documenting history. Cool. I have added Venezuela to my bucket list. I would love to see this type of museum open up countries like the United States, Kazakhstan, Russia, Canada because they are the countries where the most bitcoins are mined.

I'm really into visiting tiny niche museums in places where most are funded privately... real kooky stuff, incidentally the last two I visited were in Kazahkstan, loads of dino stuff.

[tranthidung]

Venezuela has lot of interesting ideas. They are like one of pioneers in Bitcoin industry.

When I read your topic, I am doubtful that whether Venezuela just made a first ever Bitcoin Mining Museum. I did not believe it is the first ever in history. After searching, impressively to know, it's an actual the first one, in history. A round of applause for that country and for people who made it.

[DaveF]

I wonder if they are going to be able to get a lot of the older miners and ones that had limited production runs.

Things like some of original Mr. Teal Chilis, the original Avalon miners, the USB BEs and so on.
There are probably 100s and 100s of things out there that many of us have seen, played with and forgotten about over the last 10 years.

So many small batch stuff that just never got off the ground or more modern ones that just never made it into the public but were just for industrial miners.

-Dave

[Fivestar4everMVP]

This is indeed amazing and will serve as another source of confirmation to those who are in doubt as to whether Bitcoin is growing or dying, this is another prove to all that Bitcoin is indeed growing and going places, Bitcoin is creating a lot of new businesses around the world and this is truly a good thing...
Maybe when i become a millionaire which i believe will happen very soon, i will embark on a Bitcoin vacation and will make this place one of the places i will visit with my family.
I love to see Bitcoin centered businesses springing up every where around the world, it shows that true adoption is happening even amid the current bear market.

[PrivacyG]

Actually, this is very interesting.  One thing that jumped straight into my eyes however is that some of this equipment is not covered by a glass frame, which means it gets dusty very shortly.  Annoys the freak out of me.  Please, museum, fix that!

But while this is interesting to see, I imagine it will be so much more interesting to those visiting it decades from now when this will be considered obsolete, very old equipment that was used to mine most of the Bitcoin supply.  Will be interesting for them to know that an equipment so 'weak' from 2013 was able to mine per day more than you will be able to mine even per month or year 50 years from now.  It is already incredible that USB miners and GPU or CPU (can not remember) mining used to be a thing.

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Regards,
PrivacyG

[Leviathan.007]

Good to see a picture of this museum they maybe opened the museum a year ago in Venezuela but I just saw an article about a bitcoin museum in Caracas, I was expecting to see these museums in other countries too especially in El Salvador where they have more interest to bitcoin from the government side and maybe this will be happening soon there, opening museums and show the interest to bitcoin in these countries can be because of their economic system and the economic sanctions by the USA and some other countries here bitcoin can be helpful for the countries like Venezuela.

[yazher]

Nice they already build one and obviously, this will gonna be one important history in the making because if I'm not mistaken, they are the ones who first build such an exclusive museum for bitcoin mining history and of course, this community should have some place there. After all, Satoshi Nakamoto was here more than 10 years ago. Anyway, it's good to have such a place after years of bitcoin's existence they are really grateful for what has been accomplished in the past years and there are lots of good things to come.

[stompix]

Looks excellent the museum

Seriously? You're using a word spinner on the post just above yours?
I thought we got rid of those plagiarists but seems like they are coming back..

It’s a private initiative from a group of established miners in Venezuela. The rather lengthy 2021 article from Criptonoticias gives a thorough description of what to expect from the Museum: cpu motherboards, GPU video cards, fpga, all sorts of asic equipment - there being an area that displays modern mining equipment for sale (probable the ulterior goal), a bitcoin asic miner pool (demo at the time and perhaps still now, since they did not have the state permission to mine there), and a crypto bar …

I think it's more like a crypto mining museum, not just bitcoin
I can see a D3 there which mines blake, a Z9  which is equihash, L3 which is scrypt so probably every single thing Bitmain made an ASIC for is over there.

I wonder if they are going to be able to get a lot of the older miners and ones that had limited production runs.

With enough money you can get everything, there is a guy selling a BL Jalapeno for 500$, I saw some Neptunes, a Cointerra might be harder to get  

[sklopan]

How cool is that! Just imagine, history is being created right before our eyes, which is now stored in museums, as the very beginning of this history. Very good!

[blue Snow]

I think this is a very interesting idea, and I would love to visit a museum like this:

I think, even without that museum, bitcoin mining already has a big museum that won't go away from archived, called a blockchain Block 0 bitcoin. without even visiting, all people around the world can see that already on the internet. But thanks, your information is good to us, the old tool of mining is something really necessary to watch for our child and grandchild next future, so they know that using a low-specification laptop can do mining in past.