Breaking: "Revolutionen" i Kazakhstan berodde på bitcoin minersthe recent riots in Kazakhstan related to internet shutdowns caused by Bitcoin mining, and the resulting drop in the currency value
https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/fin...ergy-countries
Oftast säger man att "revolutionen" berodde på höjda bränslepriser men denna referens säger att bitcoin miners orsakade oroligheterna. Detta hänger naturligtvis samman med generellt ökade energipriser.
Tidigare hade man kört i Kina, men Kina sade att BTC förde med sig bluff och svindel. Då gick miners till Kazakhstan.
Citat:
"We enjoy the lowest price of industrial electricity," says Han. "Local governments would give us an industrial park and within that industrial park, they would give us like a lot of benefit from tax treatment and everything."
By September 2019, three fourths of bitcoin mining in the world was in China, according to the Cambridge Alternative Finance Benchmarks, a research center run out Cambridge University in Britain. But a backlash was brewing. The Chinese government blamed the unregulated cryptocurrency for an uptick in financial scams and for financing nefarious activity like fraud or ID theft.
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/10812...=1649696796674
Man har testat Ryssland som dock verkar ha för mycket byråkrati. (och nu kriget)
Nu verkar el-piraterna dra mot USA, som tidigare angivits i tråden.
Citat:
Kearney, Nebraska
Rockdale, Texas, a small town east of Austin, and Massena, in upstate New York, have already seen a sharp rise in cryptocurrency mining.
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/10812...=1649696796674
USA kan alltså erbjuda så låga elpriser att de kan attrahera miners. Vi betalar väl så höga elräkningar att vi är ute ur spelet.
Så de stigande elpriserna samt regleringar gör att en "bitcoin migration" har skapats.