Sentences with phrase «because cryptocurrency mining operations»

Graphics processor makers especially found themselves between a rock and a hard place when gamers were unable to buy gaming GPUs because cryptocurrency mining operations bought out entire stores at a time — leaving gamers with no option but eBay.

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China became a hub of Bitcoin mining in part because of cheap hydropower there, but power authorities there also moved to cut off supplies to cryptocurrency operations last November.

Because it was possible to run large - scale ASIC mining operations, mining became a way for a few small groups of people to essentially control the monetary supply of various cryptocurrencies.

Kong insists that Canaan's decision to launch an IPO outside of China has nothing to do with the country's recent bans on cryptocurrency mining and trading operations, but rather because the listing process takes too long.