Intro

HOLOCAT: “Boy, what a dump. This place had better store some sardines or dried fish. I’d even settle for some e-nip."

You land, steady yourself, and search for a point of ingress. There, that broken window should do the trick. You take out what’s left of the window with a brick, and hop inside. The building is filled with thousands of dusty, well-preserved bitcoin miners.

HOLOCAT: “This isn’t a warehouse; this is a museum. I think these are old Vanderpoole family ASIC miners. In bitcoin’s early days, miners would use general purpose computers to mine bitcoin. But early on miners realized they could use machines with a special type of chip called an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, or ASIC What is an ASIC miner? for short. These chips do only one thing, mine bitcoin, their narrow focus increases their efficiency and allows miners to spend less energy to mine, giving them an edge. Can you believe that people mined with their laptops at one point?"

This explains all the machines in the Vanderpoole family collection.