Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages
by LurkingPenguin on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:56PM
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> KEGOC did not directly blame miners, but it used language similar to the energy minister’s and said it was cutting off customers who “over-consume.”
And:
> "We have seen that our [country's] electricity consumption has literally increased by 7 percent in one year. That's a very big increase," Energy Minister Magzum Mirzagaliyev said on September 30, noting that consumption usually grows by about 2 percent per annum.
> Mirzagaliyev linked the demand to mining and proposed the government limit supplies of electricity to 1 MW per mining farm and to 100 MW for the whole sector.
Where's the mystery here? Again, hopefully for the last time: China banned mining. Chinese miners moved to Kazakhstan. Now Kazakhstan is having power shortages.
Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages
by latchkey on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:12PM
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> China banned mining. Chinese miners moved to Kazakhstan. Now Kazakhstan is having power shortages.
We wouldn't be reading about power shortages at all if 3 major power plants didn't go offline.
Re:Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages
by malermeister on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:17PM
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We also wouldn't be reading about them if crypto people didnt increase power draw by 7%.
"On October 15, the national grid operator, KEGOC, announced electricity rationing after three major coal-fired power plants shut down. KEGOC did not directly blame miners, but it used language similar to the energy minister’s and said it was cutting off customers who “over-consume.”"