美国达拉斯北边郊区有一对创业精神十足的兄妹,每月收入高达32000美元。他们可不是靠着沿街卖柠檬水,而是以太坊(Ethereum)挖矿。
今年3月,14岁的伊什安•塔库尔和9岁的妹妹安雅开始用一台旧游戏电脑挖矿,两人的大学基金也迅速增加。
据《达拉斯晨报》(Dallas Morning News)报道,第一个月两人赚了1000美元,此后收入猛增。
两人听到父亲谈论加密货币崛起,从而激发了兴趣,刚开始想投资加密货币可惜已经太贵。在YouTube和父亲的帮助下,九年级的伊什安和四年级的安雅学会了挖矿。两人将收入用于再投资,购买更多设备,由于今年夏天芯片遭遇短缺,就从附近电子商店购买(主要买显卡)。
目前两人用94块处理器挖矿,每秒算力大约90亿次。如果计算正确,就能够得到加密货币。
兄妹二人给业务起名为Flifer Technologies,刚开始在车库里,随着业务发展,两人将大部分矿机转移到达拉斯市中心一处有空调的数据中心。不过,车库里仍然留了30块显卡。
两处挖矿点每月消耗电费约2500美元。两人出售了一些以太坊来支付硬件、电费和数据中心租金等费用,选择持有大部分以太坊,希望日后可以继续增值。
根据Cointdesk的数据,以太坊今年价格大幅增长,自年初以来增长了334%。(财富中文网)
译者:冯丰
审校:夏林
美国达拉斯北边郊区有一对创业精神十足的兄妹,每月收入高达32000美元。他们可不是靠着沿街卖柠檬水,而是以太坊(Ethereum)挖矿。
今年3月,14岁的伊什安•塔库尔和9岁的妹妹安雅开始用一台旧游戏电脑挖矿,两人的大学基金也迅速增加。
据《达拉斯晨报》(Dallas Morning News)报道,第一个月两人赚了1000美元,此后收入猛增。
两人听到父亲谈论加密货币崛起,从而激发了兴趣,刚开始想投资加密货币可惜已经太贵。在YouTube和父亲的帮助下,九年级的伊什安和四年级的安雅学会了挖矿。两人将收入用于再投资,购买更多设备,由于今年夏天芯片遭遇短缺,就从附近电子商店购买(主要买显卡)。
目前两人用94块处理器挖矿,每秒算力大约90亿次。如果计算正确,就能够得到加密货币。
兄妹二人给业务起名为Flifer Technologies,刚开始在车库里,随着业务发展,两人将大部分矿机转移到达拉斯市中心一处有空调的数据中心。不过,车库里仍然留了30块显卡。
两处挖矿点每月消耗电费约2500美元。两人出售了一些以太坊来支付硬件、电费和数据中心租金等费用,选择持有大部分以太坊,希望日后可以继续增值。
根据Cointdesk的数据,以太坊今年价格大幅增长,自年初以来增长了334%。(财富中文网)
译者:冯丰
审校:夏林
An enterprising brother-sister team in a North Dallas suburb are pulling down as much as $32,000 a month by eschewing the lemonade stand and focusing instead on mining Ethereum.
Ishaan Thakur, 14, and his sister Aanya, 9, have seen their college fund swell this year after they began mining in March with an old gaming computer.
That first month, they made $1,000, reports the Dallas Morning News. The numbers have soared since then.
With interest spurred after hearing their father talk about the rise of cryptocurrencies, the pair initially wanted to invest in crypto, but it was already too expensive, so with the help of YouTube and their father, the ninth-grader and fourth-grader learned how to mine. They’ve reinvested their earnings to buy additional equipment, signing up for supply updates (generally graphics cards) from nearby electronics stores to fight this summer’s chip shortage.
They currently have 94 processors mining—making about 9 billion guesses per second at codes. When they get it right, they’re rewarded with crypto.
Their business, which they named Flifer Technologies, was initially housed in their garage, but as it has grown, they moved most of their rigs to an air-conditioned data center in downtown Dallas. They keep 30 cards in the garage setup, however.
Between the two locations, they spend about $2,500 a month on energy bills. While they’ve sold some Ethereum to cover expenses like the hardware, power bill, and rent at the data center, they’re hanging onto the majority of it, hoping it continues to grow in value.
Ethereum has been on a tear this year, increasing in value by 334% since the start of the year, according to CoinDesk.