INSIGHT-Coal to crypto: The gold rush bringing bitcoin miners to Kentucky
A new kind of mining is taking Kentucky by storm, bitcoin and other crypto mining! [slideshow below]
Businessman Geoff Marietta talks with his employees about the construction of the new brewery in Harlan, Kentucky, January 26, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Warren Rogers, chief strategy officer at Blockware Solutions, poses for a portrait at a new mining site in Belfry, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
“Hodl Tarantula” poses for a portrait in Manchester, Kentucky, January 27, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Ethan Aslinger, a 23-year-old employee at the PrimeBlock bitcoin mine bitcoin mine, stands at the site in Harlan, Kentucky, January 26, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Businessman Geoff Marietta talks with his employees about the construction of the new brewery in Harlan, Kentucky, January 26, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Downtown Inez, KY 
A view of the Martin County government center in downtown Inez, Kentucky, January 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Employees fix equipment at the mining site in Inez, Kentucky, January 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Workers are seen at a waste gasification site in Inez, Kentucky, January 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Power grids seen at Inez Power in Inez, KY 
Bitcoin mining containers are seen at the mining site in Inez, Kentucky, January 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Mining rigs inside a container at the bitcoin mining site in Inez, Kentucky, January 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
A waste management facility in Inez, Kentucky, January 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Environmental activists Micky and Nina McKoy stand in their home in Inez, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Nina McKoy, a local environmental activist and retired biology teacher, discusses her past work fighting coal mining and its impact on eastern Kentucky in Inez, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
A worker puts fuses in the primary power line to energise a transformer at a Blockware new mining site in Belfry, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Construction workers move fans on Blockware’s new mining operation in Belfry, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Construction workers move fans on Blockware’s new mining operation in Belfry, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Mining rigs are installed inside racks at Blockware Solution’s new crypto mining site in Belfry, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud 
Construction workers at a Blockware Solutions operation on an old coal mining site in Belfry, Kentucky, January 24, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Amira Karaoud
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