Mining of Bitcoin at the Icelandic Facility

An ordinary metal establishment sits fewer than 2 miles away from the Reykjavik airport in Iceland. It is as dull and gigantic as the average poultry barn. There is earsplitting uproar inside as well, though not from the chickens. The noise comes from the thousands of GPUs, working out the intricate, comprehensive calculations necessary to authenticate cryptocurrency transactions and adding them to the blockchain.

To stop the machine....