Nearly a fifth of all Bitcoin mining power is sitting completely dark, and turning it back on could trigger a brutal margin trap

Luxor estimates 235 EH/s of capacity is idle for mixed reasons, complicating the capitulation signal as Texas’s summer curtailment window ends. The post Nearly a fifth of all Bitcoin mining power is sitting completely dark, and turning it back on could trigger a brutal margin trap appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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