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Not that long ago Kazakhstan was considered very attractive for BTC miners. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-09/bitcoin-b...

One of the surprising features of the crypto boom is the discovery of places where the price of energy is directly subsidized, or otherwise broken (e.g. you can just bribe the head of the city power plant, instead of paying your power bill).

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