I heard there was a nuclear accident at a new generation Chinese power plant. Didn't the blackout start from there?
That nuclear powerplant is in Guangdong, only there provinces matter for bitcoin mining and those are Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Sichuan.
Besides, there was no blackout reported and I don't even know if they've halted the reactor at all, oh, btw, the reactors are french made, China has only one home-built PWR reactor.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-happened-chinas-taishan-nuclear-reactor-2021-06-15/It could but the effect was not huge and it recovers back shortly. Why? Because we are not only relying on China, a lot of countries that have crypto mining business and they are enough to cater to the huge number of transactions without China's support.
Nothing recovered and it won't be short at all.
The difficulty a month ago was 25.05 T, then it dropped -15.97 % to 21.05 T then again - 5.30 % to 19.93 T and now we're looking at another -10% drop.
Overall a 30% drop since May and lower than in October a year ago when BTC was at 10k.
And you have the wrong idea about how the number of miners influences the number of transactions, and the fact is that they don't!