I read BTC transaction fee's could be cut up to 45% once Bitfarms gets their Argentina setup running..
I was quite intrigued by the story so checking it up..
Bitfarms has acquired (not yet delivered) 49k miners with a total hash rate of 5Exa.
Ok, let's ignore the difficulty adjustment, and just for the sake of comparison let's say it will stat tomorrow to mine to bring back the hashrate in correlation to the current difficulty, their entire farm would be able to fill in just 1/10 of the hashrate that is missing.
As for longterm no hashing power would be able to reduce the fee that much unless by some alignment of the plants exactly on the day of the difficulty adjustment farms that would double the hashrate would come online and this would keep on happening every two weeks, which would pe physically impossible after just a few months.
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Actually, I realized where that 45% comes from,
Will just wait it out, no rush at all. Nice experiment.
What if is an experiment of the Chinese government trying to assess what they need to cripple the network?
Too bad there is so little information on what's for real happening there.
What's happening is that CHINA controls +66% of mining, and the CCP just took baba/ant/bitmain private, and given that +90% of all asic miners on earth are made in China, it means China owns btc, way more than +67%, because they own the worlds HW, they OWN all the Crypto on earth, and can redeploy it as they wish. If somebody in China decided not to cooperate they can be taken out and shot the same day, seen it with my owns eyes. Asian culture does things for the 'good' of the culture, its 100% homogenous, its not a selfish klusterfuck like the USA.
Now ppl talk about 51%, but China has been over 51% forever, but BTC ppl ignore, well they ignored until it was too late.
Argentina will do nothing to the +67% of mining in China, its just rumor, in the meantime China will continue to ramp-up across the board, as they now control all ALT gpu miners as well as BTC ASIC clones
Now that CCP has taken control of all Mining, ASIC/GPU hw, they can do as they wish, they can mandate software, remember that all bitmain asic boxes call home, all on earth. Jack Ma is out, the CCP now controls.
Ant, Alibaba, Bitmain, its all the same thing, Jack Ma's holding companys own Alipay as well, as China went cash-less years ago; IMHO China will use the bitmain infrastructure to implement their CBDC, two birds with one stone, take out BTC which leaks YUAN out of China, and use the Free Infrastructure to support the 100% China's new 'temporary' digital cash, with limited life.