BitFury shutting down mine in Finland (Google Translate - this is one of Finland's biggest papers, supposedly):
KEMIÖNSAARI . This is the digital revolution strange.
Just three years ago Dalsbruk small urban industrial halls prepared glowing hot beams of steel wire. These landscapes of the metal industry has a long tradition: the first an iron blast furnace was born Dalsbruk already in 1686.
Steel is no longer glow Dalsbruk because FNsteel steel company went bankrupt. Halls is still warm, it is currently heat the air ukrainalaistaustaisen Bitfuryn manufactured by the company computers.
Dalsbruk utility is part of the Kemiönsaaren base, which has already been appointed, the capital of Finland bitcoin.
"At least we very much want to do Kemiö an island," the entrepreneur Sami Lappalainen says.
Bitcoin is an online peculiar means of payment, which is depending on the speaker either a large bubble, or the future of online currency. Bitcoin-money exists only in bits, and may be moved easily bittilompakosta network to another.
Entrepreneur Sami Lappalainen (right.) Has spread information about Bitcoin Kemiönsaaren companies. Dalsbruk in a restaurant Ports Iden owner Juhani Rautiainen considering bitcoin payments acceptance restaurant.
Despite the abundant publicity Bitcoin can be used only in a few places. Helsinki places are about fifteen.
Kimito island half a dozen companies to respond bitcoin payments. Kemiönsaari is reportedly the only place in Finland, where the virtual currency valid in normal grocery store.
Sami Lappalainen had to familiarize themselves with the virtual currency thoroughly in 2013. At the time he sold the bank Bitcoin.
To be precise, the owner changed the bank's former estate, and two-thirds of the amount paid for Bitcoin. The buyer was Niko Punin , another islander Kemiö bitcoin-active.
"I got friends say that I bought the bank Bitcoin," says Punin phone.
Lappalainen has spread information about Bitcoin local entrepreneurs' association. Small charges and special attention to the currency brought on by the local entrepreneurs have been interested.
"It is a real-time and easy system. It should not be any costs, such as card payments," says K-market retailer Tobias Eriksson .
"It is precisely the marketing," says the care sector entrepreneur Gunnevi Vesterlund Rehab Center.
General virtual currency does not Kemiö island not of it. Food trade, regular users have been more than a month during the dozen, and payments are made according to Eriksson, maybe a thousand euros. The benefits, however, she is not sure that bitcoin is increasing.
The entrepreneur's point of view, the biggest risk rate. If the payment does not change immediately into euros, 100 euros worth of bitcoin payment it may be tomorrow, no longer worth the 90 euro.
There are other risks. If someone manages to vohkimaan virtual Bitcoin wallet, money is almost impossible to get back.
Dalsbruk steel rolling old halls became bitcoin-factory. Now bitcoin-server arrays are being progressively dismantled.
Risks in spite of bitcoin has started to creep towards the mainstream. One example is the Dalsbruk arrived Bitfury, which has received capital from investors $ 40 million.
Bitfury manufactures Bitcoin designed for computers that "extract" the virtual currency. The extraction of computers to ensure a reliable moving of Bitcoin wallet to another and will reward the efforts of new Bitcoin.
Bitcoin way Bitfuryllä is somewhat dubious reputation. The Wall Street Journal reported in the summer, that one of the founders of the company was previously included in the Ukrainian kind of file-sharing service, which ended up with the US authorities blacklisted.
Dalsbruk few people know what is happening inside the fences. Niko Punin is currently working in Spain Bitfuryn the service, but he is silent center.
Plans have been in any case, great. The estate had to be sold in the entire factory area server center. Electricity would have to run so much that the old factory electrical transformer might have had to replace a larger one.
The Purchase Plan has been blocked, and the center is run down. Together with the hall workers unload racks, and gray computers waiting for transport.
One reason for the downfall of is the fact that mining is no longer as profitable as in the past. Server technology is aging up to a few months and the value of the currency has fallen currencies in the peak-to-quarter.
The traditional industry has its benefits: metal manufacturing remained Dalsbruk three centuries, bitcoin factory only days of the year.
http://www.hs.fi/talous/a1422251682035
