China’s Ban: Crypto and Crypto Mining May Be In A New Era
Last week, a State Council committee led by China’s Vice Premier Liu He announced that, for the first time, China is placing an elaborate ban on cryptocurrency mining, a big business in China that accounts for as much as 70% of the world’s crypto supply. According to estimates from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, […]
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Ethereum is the most recent asset caught in the path of the bulldozing machine that is China’s crackdown on crypto and crypto-related activities. When the country had begun to crackdown on mining earlier in the year, much focus had been placed on bitcoin given that it was the most popular cryptocurrency in the market. And […]
A former crypto exchange engineer believes that China's ban on Bitcoin mining is “fantastic news.” China’s crackdown on Bitcoin (BTC) mining and cryptocurrency trading recently became a primary driver for the red candlesticks on crypto market charts. But one Bitcoin mining engineer believes China’s ban on crypto is “fantastic news.”Brandon Arvanaghi, a former security engineer at crypto exchange Gemini, compared China’s harsh stance against Bitcoin with the country’s ban on Facebook and Google. Arvanaghi called getting banned in China a rite of passage for free technology and stressed that....
China’s province of Sichuan is known for its spicy food flavors. Now, though, it’s becoming known as something else: a bitcoin mining capital. It was in 2013 that China was first thought to have discovered bitcoin and since then the country has been making up for lost time in mining the digital currency. What, though, has that got to do with the province of Sichuan? Well, according to the China Money Network, since 2015, over 30 percent of China’s bitcoin mining machines have been purchased from the Sichuan province. Considering that around 70 percent of bitcoin’s global computational....
New York-based Foundry USA contributed to a 15.42% share of the network hash rate and is just 4,000 PH/s behind AntPool. New York-based crypto-mining service provider Foundry USA takes the lead to become the world’s second-largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool after taking up a 15.42% share of the network.Data from BTC.com shows that Digital Currency Group-owned Foundry USA stands behind the pool leader AntPool by a hash rate of just 4,000 PH/s, which contributed to a 17.76% network share at the time of writing. The rise in the participation of American entities can be attributed to China’s....