Gaming Hardware Company Allows Customers to Mine Crypto for Rewards

Gaming hardware manufacturing company Razer Inc. has released a new program called Razer SoftMiner. Customers can use this program to mine cryptocurrency on their computers and trade units in for digital goods.

Consumers extract new units of Razer Silver, the official digital asset of the company. They are then able to take those coins and exchange them for gaming products.

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“I’m interested in using games as a way to engage in and critique the fine art world, especially the economics of that world,” said Grayson Earle, an Integrated Media Arts adjunct professor at Hunter College and SUNY Baruch, and member of The Illuminator. An image of Ai Weiwei’s famous triptych “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” (1995) flashed on a projected screen.

In an effort to reduce my carbon footprint throughout this project I turned to my small stockpile of discarded electronics. Let me tell ya, I learned two valuable things today. 1) Old boomboxes are the greatest electronics score of all time and 2) Rainbow colored wires are your best friend.