Unleashing the bitcoin fury

No more anonymity: The EU wants to crackdown on use of Bitcoins in the wake of the Paris attacks to disrupt the financing of terrorists.

MOSCOW: A former New York hedge-fund titan deployed his giant, million-dollar BlockBoxes to Canadian tar-sands country. A Chinese fintech pioneer runs his off of hydropower in the Caucasus. A rich Russian with ties to the Kremlin keeps his in a communist-era factory on the outskirts of Moscow.

When it comes to scaling up bitcoin mining, nothing compares with the sea-container-sized kits that are swelling the fortunes of BitFury Group Ltd’s Valery Vavilov, a Soviet-born blockchain evangelist, and self-taught microchip engineer Valery Nebesny.