CX Daily: The Fall Of China’s Last Bitcoin Mining Haven
An ethnic Tibetan woman in Sichuan province’s Heishui county carries components of cryptocurrency mining machines that were sent from the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region on May 2. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin
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For the past year and a half,
the loud whirring of tens of thousands of high-power computers filled a cavernous warehouse round-the-clock, making a stark contrast with the hushed forests of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Southwest China’s Sichuan province.
This computational arsenal belonged to a crypto mining farm, a facility crammed wall-to-wall with specialized computers dedicated to solving the complex math problems that keep the network running, and earning new Bitcoin along the way. “That’s the sound of cash coming in,” said Ye Lang (pseudonym), the 40-year-old manager of the two-floor facility in the prefecture’s Heishui county.
July 29, 2021
published at 1:43 AMReuters
A medical staff wearing a protective suit stands near an ambulance, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sept 27, 2020.
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Myanmar s military ruler is looking for greater cooperation with the international community to contain the coronavirus, state media reported on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian country struggles with a surging wave of infections.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing called in a speech for more cooperation on prevention, control and treatment of Covid-19, including with fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and friendly countries , the Global New Light of Myanmar reported.
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Songun), which gave precedence to the Korea People’s Armed Forces, and supplanted it with an ideology of “People and Masses First” (
Inmin Daejung Jaeil). This reorganization of North Korea’s system of governance empowers the ruling party at the expense of the KPAF, supporting Kim’s perpetual quest for power consolidation. More important, it sets the stage for efforts to resuscitate North Korea’s dying economy.