Kazakhstan's bitcoin mines suffered a second day of disruption as the country's internet has gone dark while protesters are on the streets. egreechee reports
Kazakhstan is second only to the U.S. in bitcoin mining hashrate, with about one-fifth of the global total according to August data from the“It looks like the internet connection is down in all of Kazakhstan,” Alan Dordzhiev, head of the Kazakh National Association of Blockchain and Data Center Industry told CoinDesk on Thursday. “Therefore none of the farms are able to connect to the mining pools.”said around 3 a.m.
Internet watchdog NetBlocks reported that internet connectivity in Kazakhstan is still almost nonexistent. Connectivity was initially lost around noon UTC Wednesday. “Metrics indicate a simultaneous loss of connectivity affecting multiple providers, which could indicate the use of a centralized kill-switch,” NetBlocks told CoinDesk in a Twitter message.
The internet was briefly and partially restored during the Kazakh president’s speech a few hours later, according to NetBlocks, when heerupted in the southern city of Zhanaozhen over a hike in the price of liquefied petroleum gas, commonly used to power cars, which took effect over the weekend. Kazakhstan’s electricity grid has been under strain in the last few months. That’s in part because of
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