Visitors At This Bitcoin-Heated Spa Are Complaining About Mold and UTIs

Image by Getty / Futurism On both sides of the East River, well-heeled New Yorkers have for a few years been shelling out for the tranquility promised by Bathhouse, a high-concept spa company that boasts thermal pools heated by Bitcoin mining. As Curbed reports, however, visitors and former employees at both of the spa's two locations claim to have experienced everything from mold and vermin on pipes and floors to unidentifiable "black particles" in pools and post-bath urinary tract infections. The latest fracas regarding the "evil crypto baths," as local outlet Hell Gate called Bathhouse last year, began earlier this month when a Reddit user claimed that they got a UTI after going into two "kinda dirty and gross"-looking tubs at the company's location in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. "I thought it would be fine," the user wrote, "but then I ended up with a UTI." Days prior, the poster claimed, another friend went to Bathhouse's other location in Manhattan and "also ended ... Read full article.