Chinese crypto miner BIT Mining ‘unlikely’ to flee Kazakhstan: Report

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The crypto community reportedly expects Kazakhstan’s internet and mining industry to return to normal by next Monday.

Despite major internet blackouts amid anti-government protests in Kazakhstan, some Bitcoin (BTC) miners operating in the country are not planning to leave the country just yet.

BIT Mining, one of the largest BTC mining companies that relocated operations from China to Kazakhstan last year, is still evaluating the impact of political unrest in Kazakhstan, Chinese industry news agency 8btc reported Friday.

“It is unlikely that our mining machines will be evacuated to North America,” a spokesperson for BIT Mining reportedly said, adding that the firm will be closely monitoring the situation.

The representative also noted that Kazakhstan is not BIT Mining main area of business, as it has a number of “mid-to-high-end mining machines” deployed in North America. “It is unlikely that the machines will be withdrawn from Kazakhstan to North America, and further actions will be disclosed,” the report said.

According to some sources, Kazakhstan-based miners have managed to keep their unites online despite the internet outages.

“Some Kazakhstan miners told us that the internet was temporarily restored on January 7th. In addition, the 4G network of Chinese phones is also intermittently effective. The industry expects that the country may return to normal next Monday,” Chinese blockchain journalist Colin Wu reported Friday.

Sources also said that some miners’ operations were unaffected because they are mostly located in remote areas while protests were concentrated in the urban area of Almaty. “It has not been heard that any miners have been robbed, but they cannot mine because of the network interruption,” Wu reported.

According to the latest data from network stability data provider NetBlocks, the internet in Kazakhstan had been shut down for 36 hours by Friday morning, with connectivity levels standing at 5%.

Related: Top Bitcoin mining country Kazakhstan turns off internet amid protests

But despite the ongoing nation-wide blackouts, Kazakhstan unrest appears to have had little to no effect on the global Bitcoin hash, according to some sources. Data from major BTC blockchain explorer Blockchain.com suggests that the total BTC hash rate has not dropped at all since the beginning of 2022.

Total BTC hash rate 30-day chart. Source: Blockchain.com

BIT Mining and other major Kazakhstan mining services operators like the Chinese firm Canaan did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.

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