The fast, loose (and lucky) life of a crypto anarchist

Sergei Sergienko has crammed a lot of life experience into four decades, and is the first to admit he’s not always been a squeaky-clean operator. (Image: Sergei Sergienko)

Australian Financial Review

Fri, 29 Oct 2021

Sergei Sergienko’s house says a lot about his crypto philosophy: there is next to no wastage. He plans to buy two bitcoin mining machines – basically boxes stacked with computer processing power – and bolt them to the side of the house in Kellyville, Sydney.From the mining machines he wants to run two cables: one to the roof where it draws energy directly from the solar panels there, the other to the pool, offloading the excessive heat generated by the constant mining. Like most crypto players who have spent time on the e...

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