One of the first things you notice when you walk into the R&D lab at Driveline Baseball is the stark contrast between the outside—it’s nestled into a nondescript industrial complex with businesses like “Truck and Trailer repair,” “Water Damage and Cleaning Services,” and something just called “Seattle Products”—and the inside, which is a combination of crates, workout equipment, astroturf, makeshift mounds, and a teeming mass of interconnected hard drives. I presume the electronics are processing the immense data load that Driveline acquires from their training program, but I am wrong. “That’s our Bitcoin mining station,” says Kyle Boddy, Driveline’s founder. I assume this is a joke at first, but he assures me it’s not. “It’s actually pretty profitable,” he shrugs.



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