Russia has increased its hash rate because of miners fleeing from China due to the country’s ban against Bitcoin mining. Its been less than six months since China’s May 2021 crackdown on bitcoin mining, resulting in the greatest shakeup in the network’s history. According to Cambridge University’s Center for Alternative Finance (CFAF), since May, the US has pulled into first place for bitcoin mining with 35% of the global hashrate, while China has gone from 45% to zero. Although Kazakhstan is currently in second place with 18% of the network’s mining, the small country is running out of energy and...