The U.S. now leads all other countries in cryptocurrency mining following China's ban earlier this year, according to Cambridge researchers.
Electricity Consumption Index , researchers with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance said cryptocurrency mining in China has nearly disappeared after previously accounting for about 75 percent of the global share in September 2019. China's percentage of the global share was at about 38 percent before the country's ban was announced earlier this year, a number that other top cryptocurrency miners around the globe have since worked to replace.
The global Bitcoin network hashrate credited to the U.S. was just over 35 percent by the end of August, an increase of nearly 20 percent since April, CBECI researchers said. Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation follow the U.S. on the list of global leaders, with Canada, Ireland, Malaysia and Germany also each making up 4 percent or more of the global share.
The U.S. now accounts for the top share of Bitcoin’s network hashrate around the world, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, adding to concerns about the impact its expanding use will have on the country’s carbon footprint. Above, a souvenir coin depicting a bitcoin is pictured in Caracas on September 17.as"the aggregate computing power of all mining hardware attempting to solve the puzzle at a given point in time.
"If the August data updates are an indication for the future, then that recovery will likely be further distributed predominantly between the largest share gainers—U.S., Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation," CCAF's Michel Rauchs wrote Wednesday.
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