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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: China Ban and the mining exodus
by
cabron
on 30/10/2021, 03:49:43 UTC
A lot of countries have been benefitting from China ban on cryptos. Due to the ban, countries that made borders with China saw their crypto mining industry boom. Kazakhstan is one of the most recent countries where the crypto mining interest is surging as "at least $1.5B in economic activity from crypto mining within 5 years" is expected to hit the country. The investment that crypto will bring to the country will be a boost for Kazakhstan's development.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/kazakhstan-expects-at-least-1-5b-in-economic-activity-from-crypto-mining-within-5-years



Bitcoin PoW mining is a plague on any country dumb enough to invite it in.
Rolling Blackouts anyone.  Tongue

https://forkast.news/headlines/kazakhstans-power-shortages-crypto-miners-scramble/
https://compassmining.io/education/kazakhstans-power-shortage-outage-bitcoin-mining/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/kazakhstan-rations-power-after-coal-fired-plant-outages-2021-10-15/
https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-to-restrict-crypto-miners-amid-power-shortages


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Then China offered a reality check this summer when it banned cryptocurrency use and mining on its territory.
Many farmers simply moved operations across the border, turning Kazakhstan into the world’s second-largest crypto miner.
The country’s share of global mining soared from 1.4 percent in September 2019 to over 18 percent,

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Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages

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Facing a sudden energy shortage, officials must be regretting their recent embrace of the crypto industry.
Then China offered a reality check this summer when it banned cryptocurrency use and mining on its territory.
Many farmers simply moved operations across the border, turning Kazakhstan into the world’s second-largest crypto miner.
The country’s share of global mining soared from 1.4 percent in September 2019 to over 18 percent

Permanent Bans of Bitcoin PoW mining in Kazakhstan , not far away.
China Smarten up, and so will Kazakhstan ,about the dangers of PoW to the people and energy grid,
although odds are Texas holds out until their power grid is destroyed and throws Texas back to the stone age for years.  Tongue
Watch Texas growing power nightmare here : http://www.ercot.com/
Odds are less than 2 years until a Texas Power Grid collapse during a winter storm, thanks to the increased energy drain by PoW bitcoin miners.

It can't be true because the country is among the top countries with coal reserves.

All of sudden the news comes after they were heavily doing BTC mining. Is the big man up above pulling all the strings on the poor countries?
I have the feeling that in the next few more years, only the governments are the ones mining Bitcoin and the people are just going to be the holders and making transactions.