China’s Crypto Miners Struggle to Pay Power Bills as Regulators Clamp Down on...

Local media reports indicate electricity producers in Yunnan, China’s fourth-largest province by Bitcoin hash rate, have been ordered not to provide power to crypto mines. Local sources report that authorities from the city of Baoshan in the Chinese province of Yunnan are escalating efforts to crack down on Bitcoin miners, ordering electricity producers to cease supplying power to the city’s miners.On Nov. 30, Chinese crypto reporter Colin Wu tweeted that several miners had informed him of the ban, sharing what appear to be scanned copies of official documents issued to power....

Miners dislocated by China’s crackdown are looking to Texas for cheap electricity, but the state’s grid is already on the brink of disaster amid a sweltering summer. The recent crackdown on crypto mining in China has seen concerns expressed over the potential impact a hashrate migration could have on Texas’ unreliable electricity market, as an increasing number of dislocated miners eye the Lone Star State.Texas’ abundant sources of renewable energy and highly deregulated power grid make the state an obvious choice for migrating miners from China and elsewhere, with 20% of Texan electricity....

Many in the financial establishment in industrialized economies see bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with skepticism, as a speculative and highly volatile trend that can only end badly. U.S. and European regulators have issued dire warnings about the perils of crypto trading. In China, regulators clamp down hard on crypto mining, forcing crypto companies to shut […]

The backbone of the Bitcoin network is miners and full nodes. We have already seen a decrease in the amount of full nodes over the last 24 months as Bitcoin ASIC miners came on the scene in greater numbers. Bitcoin ASIC miners brought Bitcoin mining to more people as they were lower power than GPU rigs that had been the norm for quite some time prior. As the value of Bitcoin has risen over the last two years, we have seen more and more money invested into mining from both small home miners to large farms and even huge industrial multi megawatt installations. The current price drop has put....

Part of this article appears in Issue 20. In his pocket, Joe has an old leather wallet. It contains enough banknotes to buy him a brand new wallet of a better model he saw in a magazine. This buying power is exclusive to him, who alone can use those bills to buy something. Likewise, if he transfers them to another person, then instead of him, only this other person will own their buying power. However, although Joe's transferring away his banknotes can always transfer along their control, it could never transfer along their whole property, which is not only his. The bills, as possibly....