As Bloomberg noted, until early 2017 China was the biggest market for bitcoin trading on exchanges, and some of
the largest cryptocurrency mining operations on the planet are located there.
The Moonlite Project was born with the objective of becoming one of
the largest cryptocurrency mining operations in the world.
Not exact matches
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.
Much like multinational corporations (MNC) with
large overseas
operations, miners of
cryptocurrency networks as a whole do not measure the income they receive in terms of bitcoins (or other discrete
cryptocurrencies), but instead they measure their income in terms of «fiat» from foreign financial markets, specifically converting bitcoins into the local fiat currency where their
mining operation physically resides.
This news closely followed the recent announcement from Russian Miner Coin (RMC) which plans to raise $ 100 million worth of
cryptocurrency and start a
large - scale bitcoin
mining operation to compete with China.
While Bitcoin
mining operations exist all over the world, China is by far the
largest player in the world of
cryptocurrency mining.
While
cryptocurrency is technically illegal to own / trade in Iceland, there are still a number of
large - scale, well - known
mining operations throughout the country.
By raising the capital required to operate a very
large scale
mining operation, Moonlite is positioning itself to be one of the few bitcoin and other
cryptocurrency mining operations that can mine profitably at current levels and current prices.
Mining Hydro - Quebec, the
largest state - owned utility in Canada, appears unable to meet the electricity demand from
cryptocurrency miners seeking to establish
operations in the energy - rich province.