The Crypto Family Farm

Inside the life of a family that eats, sleeps, and breathes the blockchain

Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Twin Falls, Idaho, 1927. Photo: WaterArchives.org/Flickr via CC BY-SA 2.0

By Gabriel Nicholas

Inside the Collins household fireplace, underneath nine Christmas stockings that hang year round, sit the cryptocurrency mining rigs. In the winter, these screenless computers are moved below the furnace, where the excess heat they produce helps warm the…