Chinese Bitcoin mining shakeout may have surprise BTC price consequences — an...
Bitcoin's production cost is dropping, and price action often rebounds to new highs if it dips below it, data shows. China's crackdown on Bitcoin (BTC) mining may have unintended benefits for BTC price action, one analyst suggests.In a tweet on June 18, Charles Edwards, CEO of investment firm Capriole, argued that the Chinese miner exodus was already lowering Bitcoin's potential price floor.Don't believe the China FUDAs a shake-up sees Bitcoin hashing power redistributed away from China, Bitcoin's electrical cost — the combined cost of keeping the network running — is dropping.As Edwards....
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's tempting to treat everything as a nail. Thus, most people in the technically-oriented Bitcoin community treat the specter of mining centralization as a problem to be solved chiefly by technical means. However, a substantial cause of mining centralization is Chinese government policy, which distorts the digital currency mining market. There are creative arguments that China is violating its international trade obligations. Given the consequences for mining centralization, government subsidy for digital currency mining might be added to the list of....