American Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Genesis Digital Assets has agreed to purchase 20,000 new BTC mining systems from blockchain hardware giant Canaan, according to a press release published today.
Canaan also granted Genesis an option to buy up to 180,000 more machines in the future.
“The Bitcoin mining machines from this latest purchase order are part of our on-going (sic) efforts to rapidly scale our Bitcoin mining operations in North America and the Nordics where we are focused on energy that comes from renewable sources,” explained Abdumalik Mirakhmedov, Genesis co-founder and executive chair.
Today,we have secured a purchase order from Genesis Digital Assets Limited, for 20,000 of its Bitcoin mining machines. In conjunction with the Order, Canaan has granted Genesis an option to purchase up to 180,000 additional mining machines.https://t.co/DUBJgcwdmFpic.twitter.com/1HJn0fl2cX
He added that these new rigs should “dramatically” increase the company’s mining capacity and are part of Genesis’ general plan to reach 1.4 gigawatts by the end of 2023.
As of July 2021, Genesis was responsible for 2.6% of the Bitcoin network’s total computing power, according to the company’s website.
This resulted in several consecutive drops in the Bitcoin mining difficulty since the network had to automatically readjust itself in the face of a massive exodus of miners. Mining difficulty refers to how easy it is for miners to earn a blockchain network’s reward.
America’s relationship with China could be best described as “frosty”. The first and second-largest economies in the world have increasingly found themselves at loggerheads; from trade to finance, artificial intelligence to telecoms.
China and the US have also clashed diplomatically over China’s handling of its neighbors, in particular, Taiwan.
China sees the island nation as a breakaway province that should be brought back into the country’s sphere of influence, whereas America recognizes Tai...
“People still attach too much importance to this or that territory, but it's irrelevant—Bitcoin is truly global. In the meantime, China may just have handed financial power to the rest of the world—that could be very interesting,” Jason Deane, a crypto analyst at Quantum Economics, told Decrypt earlier.
China’s share in the global Bitcoin hash rate has dropped down to just over 46% in the past few months, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index. In its turn, the U.S. now accommodates 16.1% of Bitcoin’s total computing power.
And with the addition of 20,000 Bitcoin miners bought by Genesis—and potentially 180,000 more—America’s share will likely grow even bigger in the future.
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