One of Malaysia’s largest gaming cafe chains has returned to cryptocurrency mining to fill in the idle hours on empty. The gaming cafe industry is common in Asian countries where gamers prefer to gather together and play in teams. Cryptocurrency mining boomed mostly after 2017 when Bitcoin price had hit twenty-thousand dollars ($20,000) the all-time-high and people across the globe came pouring into the business. Over the years, cryptocurrency mining operations have been suffering across the globe. Between September to December of the year 2018, major mining farms were forced to shut down operations in various countries including South Korea,
