He added that in the long run, ending the bitcoin mine with fossil fuels from China would solve bitcoin's environmental problem.
So after years of saying that mining in China is done with green energy and hydroelectric power that is not used and wasted suddenly once the mining in China was banned we somehow find out it was done using fossil fuels mainly?
Before the ban even there was a discussion about how much energy is used everyone pointed out Sichuan
However, it is completely incorrect. Most of those who administer the Bitcoin network and provide security (called miners) are located close to cheap, and underutilized, hydro power facilities. I recently spoke several times and at length to former power industry colleagues in Hong Kong and their estimate is that more than
80% of all Chinese miners are located in Sichuan province. The vast majority of power produced in Sichuan is from hydro power. I was in China late last year and visited Sichuan and some of the locals told me that officials are extremely keen on crypto because it leads to more jobs and taxes. There was a policy to curtail renewables development, as there was so much overcapacity, until crypto arrived.
What happened to those claims?
Now that they banned it everything from China was bad even before?
So, everyone claiming that mining in China was done with green energy was a liar? Good to know!