The Operation
A Zcash mining hall is a power load with machines inside it. The design starts from electricity, heat, and a connection to the network. Scale stays qualitative until the figures are cleared.
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.
The hall is sized around electricity that can be contracted, not around a wish. The lead path is renewable hydro in northern Norway. A UK path would depend on surplus renewable power. No contract is described on this site.
[PLACEHOLDER — power contract status]
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.
The fleet will be specialised Equihash machines. Models and quantities will be published only once the figures have been cleared. Until then the fleet is described in qualitative terms: a large facility, not a number.
[PLACEHOLDER — machine models and quantities, once cleared]
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.
Hydroelectricity can be a low-carbon source of power, and in the right industrial setting it can be comparatively cheap. Cold air reduces the share of that power which is spent on cooling rather than on the proof of work. Together they are the reason northern Norway leads the search. 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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