Power
The hall is sized around electricity that can be contracted. The search starts with surplus renewable power in the UK, and continues worldwide. Hydro, wind and solar are all in view.
The Operation
What the facility is, and how it is designed.
A Zcash mining hall is a power load with machines inside it. The design starts from electricity, heat, and a connection to the network.
Seeking sites worldwide
In Motion Mining is actively seeking sites, starting in the UK, and worldwide, alongside the sites it already has under management. The next sites will be placed where the power is.
We are looking to partner with organisations that have excess or surplus power: renewable generators, hydro, wind and solar operators, landowners, and industrial sites with stranded or curtailed energy. A useful site can feed the machines and carry the heat they produce.
What we mine
The facility is being designed to mine Zcash. Zcash uses the Equihash proof of work, parameters 200 and 9. The machines have to be built for that puzzle. A miner made for another algorithm cannot switch to it.
Proof of work is the way the network agrees on the order of transactions. The privacy features of Zcash, which use zero-knowledge proofs, are separate. Operating the hall does not by itself make a payout private. Wallets, address types, and pools each have their own rules, and those choices are still ahead of us.
How a facility like this is designed
Cooling
Miners turn almost all of their electricity into heat. Cold outdoor air can carry some of that heat away, which means less electricity spent on mechanical cooling. The hall still needs a designed path for air, filtration, and monitoring.
Extreme cold brings ice, condensation, and materials that become brittle. Those are design problems, and they will be treated as such. Cold air is not a claim that cooling demand disappears.
Machines
The fleet is specialised Equihash machines for a large facility.
Connectivity
Each machine needs a path to the internet so it can receive work and return results. The design will allow for more than one link, because a single connection is a single point of failure.
Physical and cyber security arrangements are not described on a public page.
Why cold air and hydro matter
Hydro, wind and solar can be low-carbon sources of power, and surplus electricity can be comparatively cheap. Cold air, where a site has it, reduces the share of that power which is spent on cooling rather than on the proof of work. That is why the search starts in the UK and continues worldwide. They are not a guarantee of uptime, output, or profit. This site makes none of those promises.
The same reasoning is set out, with the limits on what we will claim, on the sustainability page. Where the search actually stands is on the locations page.
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