I started a thread on this.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5197354.msg52932078#msg52932078


But it really seems to me that whales or whoever have completely lost their minds on making big mining farms at this point in time...

Bitmain came through on a previously almost defunct Texas site, the above Russian site and the claim today that Russia wants to control 20% of BTC mining,

the previous big mining farms overseas and in California now.

So, I don't get it. With price and difficulty where it is now (see my thread for polls) are the whales simply nuts like the rest of us and buying miners on a hope

and a prayer or a pump? Or do they have some government/institutional support now and with halving are making their move.

Again, with price/difficulty I'm not seeing it..then again I'm not a whale...

Brad