Research by Context shows just under 200,000 enterprise-grade nearline storage devices of 10TB capacity were sold to end-users in Europe this April.
Users in China can set up on AWS to "farm" Chia's XCH cryptocurrency.
Chia wants to make at-home mining cool again (or at least easy).
Chia Network, led by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, just raised another $5 million in an equity round led by Slow Ventures.
The peer-to-peer sharing company now owned by Tron's founder has a small stake in a soon-to-be-launched cryptocurrency protocol.