Igor Kutyaev / iStock via Getty Images While China’s government downright banned cryptocurrencies last year, the country now has re-emerged as the world’s second largest bitcoin (BTC-USD) miner, with the US remaining top dog, according to a report from the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (“CCAF”) released this week. Specifically, the US’s bitcoin (BTC-USD) mining hub accounted for 37.84% of global hashrate (a measure of computing power – the speed of mining), followed by China (21.11%), Kazakhstan (13.22%), Canada (6.48 %) and Russia (4.66%), as per the report, which referenced data from September 2021 to January 2022. Keep in mind…