China's Bitmain Technologies is eyeing bitcoin mining sites in Quebec, a company spokesman told Reuters, as expectations of a potential Chinese
crackdown on cryptocurrency mining make the energy - rich Canadian province an attractive alternative.
As Bloomberg and CnLedger have reported, the Chinese government intends to
crackdown on the cryptocurrency mining industry in the upcoming months.
The bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market will likely not be affected by the government's
crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in the next few months.
Former Chinese Miners «Flooding» North American Market with Used Hardware China's recent
crackdown on cryptocurrency mining is providing North American crypto miners with a chance to get their hands on hard - to - get servers and other hardware, easing a «demand bottleneck,» per Bloomberg.
Not exact matches
China was said to be a dwelling to most of
cryptocurrency mining operations before Beijing started discouraging it in 2017 as part of a huge
crackdown on Bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies though it is still unclear how much of
mining activity has moved offshore or been closed down.
As a result the Chinese government's
crackdown on both
mining and trading is expect to have minimal impact
on the global
cryptocurrency industry.