I crypto-verdenen taler man om den store mine-flugt fra Kina. Det handler om de selskaber, der så at sige skaber crypto-valutaer – kaldet “mining”. Pengene skabes ved at sætte kraftige computere til billige energikilder for at bearbejde matematiske processer for at skabe nye bitcoin. Den proces er i høj grad sket i Kina. Men tidligt på sommeren greb Kina ind mod cryptovalutaer og deres mining, og det har fået et selskab på Nasdaq, Bit Digital Inc., til at flytte sine over 20.000 computere ud af Kina. Er det første skridt til afslutningen på crypto-eventyret?

Uddrag fra Fidelity/Dow Jones:

Crypto companies Are Leaving China in ‘Great Mining Migration’

When China vowed to crack down on cryptocurrency mining early this summer, Nasdaq-listed Bit Digital Inc. ramped up efforts to get its more than 20,000 computers out of the country.

The machines are the heart of the New York-based company, which makes money by plugging the high-powered computers into cheap electricity sources so they can work through mathematical problems to unlock new bitcoin.

The process, called mining, has gone from something any individual with a PC could do a decade ago, to a massive industry that uses numerous computers and lots of electricity.