SHANGHAI -- Young Chinese who once dreamed of striking gold with cryptocurrency mining have faced setbacks since the bitcoin bubble burst last year.
Lu Qing, a 24-year-old who had made a living cryptocurrency mining in the Tibet-area city of Delingha, recently returned home to Jiangxi Province. Lu was driven out not by the bleak highlands nearly 3,000 meters above sea level, nor by having to board a plane to reach the city center, but by the business failing.
