Where are those who are telling everyone that the corona virus will be good for bitcoin? Any world crisis creating event will never be good for anything. Those people creating those types of storyboards only want a pump.
It is good for bitcoin.
Shutting down Chinese farms means more decentrlization
So, it is good for bitcoin /s
Saint-loup, article you posted is from 7.2.2020, just one day after one posted in OP, and only new thing what I learned from this other article is that "the local authorities of Sichuan province" closed some mining farms back in December due to the dry season and lack of electricity. Maybe this is case even now, and allegedly shuts down of that mining farm in fact it only has indirect connections with virus (described in my previous post).
Probably not related
According to people on weibo the mine is in Zhundong, Xinjiang and that region is full of cheap coal mines and power plants, almost the same as bitmain's Oros region.
I will blame probably authorities paranoia in this case.
ps.
One really good comment from weibo:
Can you guarantee that the BTC that is dug out will not carry viruses?
LE:
This is translated with google, but its another post from him
We have a lot of mines in Sichuan, Yunnan, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, so we know that the situation in the front line is very bad. Traffic and materials in various places were cut off, people could not be moved (Xinjiang's most exaggerated, and those who took it away for 20 days before isolation) could not resume work.
Our mine is okay. We left half of our staff on duty a year ago. Now that we do n’t have enough staff, it ’s just that the online rate of the mining machine is poor. The main impact is that some mines that stopped construction and blacked out, and thousands of mining machines could not be transferred.