Major Mining Pools’ Bitcoin Hashrate Nears Recovery as Kazakhstan’s Internet Is Partially Restored
The footage online from what is going on in Kazakhstan has een pretty wild and intense – the internet was cut there but reports are that it has been mostly restored
Major Mining Pools’ Bitcoin Hashrate Nears Recovery as Kazakhstan’s Internet Is Partially Restored
“The situation is ‘almost resolved’ and crypto mining data centers are back, Alan Dordzhiev, head of the Kazakh National Association of Blockchain and Data Center Industry, told CoinDesk on Monday.
Internet connectivity is largely restored throughout the country, Dordzhiev said. Interruptions are still taking place in Almaty, the country’s largest city and former capital, where protests raged over the last week, but crypto mining regions are ‘totally fine, he said.
Internet watchdog NetBlocks said last week that the fact that multiple providers lost connectivity simultaneously ‘indicates a centralized kill-switch.’”