During the recent hash rate of bitcoin has fallen by about 50% from 62 000 000 TH/S to 35 000 000 TH/S. This is the first such case in 2015. To autumn of the current year hash rate continued to rise, despite the prolonged depreciation of the currency.
In recent days, the network spread a video with svaluename in a bunch of ASIC miners on the street in China. Some suggest that this survey of earlier floods, however, the co-founder of one of the largest mining pools F2Pool argues that even if this is so, the situation is not far from true, writes Trustnodes.
“After yesterday’s market collapse, tens of thousands of miners of our clients were turned off,” he said.
The network also distributed a photo, which, presumably, witnessed the time of sale, miners in bulk, because they are impossible to sell on the secondary market as an independent unit.
Sichuan and other popular among the miners of the regions suffered from drought this year, therefore the price of electricity have increased, which in turn, together with a reduction in the price of bitcoin has affected the profitability of mining bitcoin.
Also recently became aware of the bankruptcy of the American mining company Giga Watt, which owes creditors millions or tens of millions of dollars.
Thus, history repeats itself and begins to resemble in 2015, when the miners also fall amid a protracted decline in the stock market.
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