2024/05/14

Rhea Myers Fondly Recalls “Folk Engineering” of Early Crypto Mining Rigs

● 14/05/2024
“You got literal plastic milk crates, put a PC motherboard in there, and then zip-tied the GPUs to the edges so that you had air circulating. There was this spectacular folk engineering-slash-vernacular techno aesthetic that I love that you just don’t get any more.”
– Blockchain artist Rhea Myers, recalling the DIY Bitcoin and Dogecoin mining rigs she encountered in the 2013 Vancouver crypto scene. In dialogue with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, the artists share anecdotes from the early days of crypto art and NFTs.
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