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Re:Bitcoin's Price Surge Is Making Hobby Mining Profitable A... by Analemma_ on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#14736932)
The biggest mining operations are Chinese and Russian farms getting their power through questionably legal arrangements, so those statistics probably don't exist and wouldn't have much relevance if they did.
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Re:Bitcoin's Price Surge Is Making Hobby Mining Profitable A... by flashdance on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:55AM (#14737064)
You can't bribe your way into 30 megawatts of power.

The biggest mining operations have legal partnerships with local and national governments.[1] As well, Russia isn't a major place for bitcoin mining: instead, mining is mostly concentrated in Georgia (the country, not the state) and China.

[1] http://ifact.ge/en/bitfury/

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