Regulatory · May 19, 2021
China bans BTC mining
Price at event
$36,800
Today
$73,525
Since then
×2.0
Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Yunnan all crack down. ~50% of global hash rate goes offline within weeks. The largest reorganisation of mining geography in network history. Hash rate fully recovers within 8 months.
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