This article examines the labor power of digital miners. Though an obscure and still incipient facet of the digital economy, crypto‐mining powers and secures transactions across blockchains, or public distributed digital ledgers. Drawing from interviews with cryptocurrency enthusiasts, blockchain advocates, and developers; participation in online and offline discussions; and a survey with small‐scale crypto‐miners, this article takes on the material and technoscientific valuation of crypto‐mining to understand how a future of open, decentralized accountability implicates human labor alongside automated processes. The work of digital mining, performed in the work of inscribing, registering, and politically organizing mining operations, enables the formation of democratic communities in the digital economy and remains inevitably embedded in social relations as a mode of productive, meaningful action.

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加密矿工：数字劳动和区块链技术的力量

本文研究了数字矿机的劳动力。尽管数字经济晦涩难懂，但仍处于起步阶段，但加密货币挖矿的能力可以确保跨区块链或公共分布式数字分类账的交易。从对加密货币爱好者，区块链倡导者和开发人员的采访中汲取灵感; 参与在线和离线讨论；以及一项针对小型加密矿工的调查，本文将对加密矿进行实质性和技术科学的评估，以了解开放式，分散式问责制的未来如何将人工与自动化流程联系在一起。在采矿活动的登记，注册和政治组织工作中进行的数字采矿工作，