Ready-made cryptocurrency mining kits lure more than geeks in Singapore

cryptocurrency-mining rigs are on offer at a computer repair shop for S$5,500

The volatile and mysterious world of cryptocurrencies is now a shopping mall away — at least in Singapore.
 

Ready-made computing machines used to facilitate transactions in Bitcoin and other digital currencies have appeared on the city-state’s shop shelves even as its central bank sounds a note of caution.

The availability of store-bought ‘mining rigs,’ each contributing its computing power to solve the complex mathematical problems needed to confirm transactions in digital currencies, means would-be cryptocurrency ‘miners’ in the country no longer have to assemble their own machines out of separate components. 
 

At Sim Lim Square, a popular shopping complex