Civil Unrest Disrupts Bitcoin Mining in Kazakhstan

Jan 8, 2022

Intense protests in Kazakhstan over rising energy prices have led to a three-day-long internet shutdown, disturbing the global crypto mining industry as Chinese miners fled to the former Soviet state following the mining ban.

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