How much has China's significant tightening of regulations affected Bitcoin?



On June 21, 2021, China ordered a private company to completely ban cryptocurrency assets, and the Bitcoin market on the 22nd fell below $ 30,000 (about 3.3 million yen) in

April. It fell to less than half of the highs recorded in. The impact of China's full-scale tightening of regulations on crypto assets has spread not only to the price of Bitcoin, but to the entire economy surrounding Bitcoin, media reports have reported.

Bitcoin hashrate drops by nearly 50% following China's mining crackdown
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/109315/bitcoin-hashrate-declines-50-percent-china-mining-crackdown

Here's What China's Bitcoin Mining Crackdown 2.0 Looks Like
https://cryptonews.com/news/here-s-what-china-s-bitcoin-mining-crackdown-2-0-looks-like-10805.htm

World's Top Bitcoin Mining-Rig Maker Halts Sales as Clients Flee --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-23/world-s-top-bitcoin-mining-rig-maker-halts-sales-as-clients-flee

What we know about China's cryptocurrency crackdown --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22544367/china-crypto-crackdown-bitcoin-mining-sichuan-ban-hydro-cryptocurrency-trading

On June 21, the People's Bank of China, the central bank of China, instructed major payment companies such as commercial banks and Alipay to stop trading and settlement of crypto assets and services related to crypto assets almost entirely. Did. As a result, the Bitcoin market on the next day remained at a price temporarily below the milestone of $ 30,000.

Bitcoin finally falls below 30,000 dollars (about 3.3 million yen) due to tightening regulations in China, some say that it will be positive for Bitcoin in the long run --GIGAZINE



In May 2021, it was reported that the Chinese government would ban Bitcoin mining and trading altogether, so businesses that were mining Bitcoin in China started mining one after another. I withdrew.

Kevin Zhang, vice president of business development at Foundry, a Chinese crypto asset mining consulting firm, said on the 23rd, 'A colleague sent a technician to Shenzhen to test, repair and clean used mining machines. He cleaned more than 20,000 mining ASICs and sent them away in the last two weeks alone. ' I posted a video showing how a large amount of equipment that seems to have been used for mining is packed in cardboard and piled up on a pallet for shipping.



According to Zhang, 70% of Chinese miners are offline as of June 23, and 90% are expected to be offline by the end of the month.



In addition, China's crypto asset news media PANews tweeted that the server rack of a mining farm in Sichuan was emptied.



These effects are beginning to surface in numbers. According to The Block Research, a market research firm specializing in crypto assets, the hash rate , which indicates mining ability, has dropped to almost half in a month.

Below is a table summarizing hash rate fluctuations in major Chinese mining pools compiled by The Block Research. The hash rate of Chinese miners halved in a month from about 168,000 petahashes per second on May 15 to about 86,000 petahashes per second on June 23.



According to the IT news site The Verge, as of April 2020, 65% of the world's hash rates were from China. Bloomberg, an economic magazine, reports that the impact of the downturn in mining in China has surfaced in the form of a 75% drop in the market price of mining rigs.

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