City in Sichuan reportedly orders crypto miners to shut down for investigation
Crypto miners in Ya'an City have reportedly been ordered to temporarily shut down their operations. Chinese authorities continue to crack down on cryptocurrency mining as a city in Sichuan province has reportedly halted local Bitcoin (BTC) mining farms.Authorities in Ya’an City, a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province, have ordered local Bitcoin mining operations to shut down for examination, Chinese financial publication Sina Finance reported Friday.Citing an anonymous source from Chinese news agency PA News, the report said that it is unclear when or whether....
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According to regional reports, bitcoin miners in Sichuan have been told by the Ya’an municipal government that they have until June 25 to shut down operations. Sichuan has been eyed closely in recent times as it’s estimated that a large demographic of miners are situated in the region. Sichuan Ya’an Energy Bureau Tells Bitcoin Miners to Close Shop Sichuan power plants have been told to stop servicing bitcoin miners in the area according to reports stemming from the Ya’an municipal government. The regional publication Panews was told by an “insider” that....
Officials in Sichuan, a major bitcoin mining hub in China, have reportedly issued a shutdown order for bitcoin mining operations there.
The hashrate of the Bitcoin network has been steadily falling since June 14 and after Sichuan miners were told to prepare operation shutdowns. Sichuan is the second-densest province in China where most miners are located, according to data stemming from the University of Cambridge. Bitcoin’s hashrate is now hovering just above 100 exahash per second (EH/s). Bitcoin Hashrate Keeps Falling as Sichuan Farms Shut Down Operations The hashrate of the Bitcoin network has been steadily falling. The cause of this seems to be the shutdown of several cryptocurrency farms in various provinces....
Bitcoin’s hashrate plummets to roughly 91 EH/s as Sichuan miners close up shop. Bitcoin’s hashrate has fallen to its lowest levels since early November as mining operations in China start unplugging.Bitcoin’s network hashrate, a measure of its computational horsepower, has slumped 46% since its peak level in mid-May. According to Bitinfocharts, Bitcoin hashrate is currently 91.2 EH/s (quintillion hashes per second), close to half of its 171.4 EH/s high posted less than six weeks ago.Bitinfocharts has also reported a drop in mining profitability from a peak of $0.449 USD per day per....
Many Bitcoin miners in China are down with the blues as Beijing forces several operations to go offline. China, once home to about 65% of the total Bitcoin (BTC) mining hash power has given the boot to several miners in the country.The country’s Bitcoin mining ban means miners have been forced to shut down their operations with some establishments already moving hardware overseas.Tweeting on Wednesday, Kevin Zhang, vice president of crypto mining advisory outfit Foundry says the mood among Chinese miners has grown sour, adding:“Sentiment is obviously quite dreary and the reality is setting....