Having effectively eliminated its industrial crypto mining sector, China is now going after the small fry: internet café and PC gaming room operators – and even those mining on rigs and cards at home – as Beijing moves to squash the mining industry once and for all.
China, like many other East Asian nations, has a thriving PC gaming culture. Most gamers prefer to play games in communal rooms, where they pay per hour for PC usage time. These PC rooms, known as wǎngbā (网吧) in Chinese, are usually fitted with high-spec computers featuring powerful GPUs and speedy processors.
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, PC gaming rooms were ordered to shut nationwide, in order to comply with social distancing rules. PC room operators in China (and
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