Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nick Hanson, CEO of Luxor Technology, joins us to talk about the ramifications of the most recent Bitcoin mining crackdown in Xinjiang China, how it relates to the 2021 prior ban, and what could happen to all that hashrate if the crackdown holds.

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**Notes:**

100 EH/s off-line in Xinjiang

1.3GW to 1.63GW of lost capacity

400,000 to 500,000 machines off-line

Hashrate fell 6% to 1062 EH/s

China's market share: 14% (145 EH/s)

Hash price $36 or $37 (depressed)

Timestamps:

00:00:00:00 Start

00:03:02:23 China Ban Redux

00:07:03:13 Discrepancy in numbers

00:08:13:22 What does this mean for miners?

00:09:52:11 Tik Tok & Red Note

00:12:00:19 Global Hashrate heat map

00:13:54:09 Moving hashrate globally

00:16:49:24 ASIC market

00:18:42:10 Does this lead to consolidation in ASIC manufacturing?
00:21:39:23 What about China Ban 1.0?

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China Mining Ban 2.0? Inside CCP Sweep of Xinjiang's Bitcoin Mines / w Nick Hansen