Did a massive Chinese power outage cause Bitcoin’s crash down to $50k?
On-chain analyst Willy Woo argues a massive power outage in Chinese mining hub Xinjiang drove Bitcoin’s violent crash down to $50,000. Woo noted reports identifying the blackouts were published late last week, with the power outages occurring to facilitate safety inspections in response to a recent flooding accident at a local coal mine that saw 21 miners temporarily trapped underground after power and communications went down.According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, or BECI, Xinjiang represents nearly one-quarter of the global hash rate.The analyst notes yesterday saw....
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Earlier in April, an accident at a Chinese coal mine in Xinjiang sent Bitcoin network’s hash rate plummeting 30% in a span of a day, which crippled the major cryptocurrency’s rally. Now, Bitcoin’s hash rate is suffering a similar loss as miners based in Sichuan, China face limitations on power usage. The State Grid in […]
The Bitcoin price has taken a tumble today with the Bitfinex trading outage, starting around 5 PM Eastern Time, and continuing into the night. This news follows scheduled maintenance on th 17th. Bitfinex is citing “server migration issues” as the source of the outage delaying their projected re-launch time several times while attempting to fix the problem, allowing bursts of cancellation requests through as they worked. The outage coincides with as much as a 9% drop from the $740 USD level down to $685 at it’s lowest point. Bitfinex has since come back online, and prices and volume are....
A massive online traffic surge temporarily overloaded a website back in February after the company announced that it invested in Dogecoin. Hello Pal, a Canadian social platform has said that its website suffered a temporary outage back in February.According to a press release issued by the company on Thursday, the incident occurred shortly after it announced significant investments in Dogecoin (DOGE) and Litecoin (LTC) mining.At the time, Hello Pal outlined the acquisition of a 15% stake in a Dogecoin and Litecoin mining facility. According to reports, the mining farm in question is the....
Regional reports from China detail that bitcoin miners located in certain areas in South China are running short on electricity. The country has been having massive issues with coal prices soaring across the mainland, as the Chinese government hasn’t been allowing coal carriers into ports. Because of the sweeping electrical shortages, mining activities have been threatened by emergency power rationing measures. This week, while bitcoin (BTC) prices touched all-time highs and the overall network hashrate has been soaring, reports detail that Chinese miners have had issues with....
Bitcoin’s recent bull run ended with a thud on 3rd November, reaching above $740 before crashing to around $685 in just a few hours. Was a rumor of further Chinese restrictions on Bitcoin exchanges to blame? And if so, how accurate is the news? Chinese Rumors Start to Spread… Again. Dramatic financial news site ZeroHedge reported on 3rd November that Chinese regulators “are considering policies including restricting domestic bitcoin exchanges from moving the cryptocurrency to platforms outside the nation and imposing quotas on the amount of bitcoins that can be sent abroad.” While....