Massive Bitcoin Difficulty Cut Looms After Hashrate Loses Nearly 250 EH/s
As an Arctic storm front batters multiple U.S. states, bitcoin mining activity across the country has pulled back sharply, with American-based operators scaling down operations to ease pressure on the power grid during a...
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