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Comment by Cybourgeoisie

They are likely mining Bitcoin Cash, a recent fork of Bitcoin. It is currently more profitable for miners to mine Bitcoin Cash, so a large number have opted to switch over until the profitability ratio flips back to Bitcoin.

There is more information about the relative hash rates for both chains at http://fork.lol.

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