Bitcoin (BTC) mining {hardware} producer Canaan Inc is increasing its footprint in Kazakhstan after signing new strategic partnerships with a number of crypto mining corporations within the nation.
The Nasdaq-listed firm introduced Tuesday that it had deployed 10,300 AvalonMiner items in Kazakhstan as of Dec. 31, 2021, finalizing section one in all its deployment within the central Asian nation. Canaan is partnering with native corporations as a part of its enterprise growth plans exterior of China. However, the corporate declined to listing any of its native companions.
Although Canaan is predicated in Hangzhou, China, the corporate is eyeing growth exterior of its house nation following Beijing’s wholesale crackdown on crypto mining in 2021. Zhang Nangeng, Canaan’s CEO, spoke out towards the mining ban throughout an earnings name in July, telling buyers that crypto miners make higher use of stranded electrical energy, and contribute positively to employment and the native economic system.
With China snuffing out the crypto mining business, neighboring Kazakhstan has rushed to fill the void, providing displaced miners low-cost and plentiful coal. By June 2021, the world’s fifth-largest mining pool had arrange store in Kazakhstan. The following month, Kazakhstan accounted for practically a fifth of the world’s Bitcoin mining output.
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China’s ban on Bitcoin mining resulted in a pointy drop in community hash fee, however that has rapidly reversed after displaced miners established new bases of operations. Following a six-month restoration, the Bitcoin community’s hash fee reached a brand new all-time excessive on Jan. 2.
#Bitcoin hash-rate smashed a brand new all-time excessive yesterday! pic.twitter.com/TzEGE3sNRF
— Bitcoin Archive (@BTC_Archive) January 3, 2022
As for Canaan, the corporate recorded stellar development in 2021, with web revenues hitting post-IPO highs. The firm’s web revenues totaled $204.5 million within the third quarter, up 708.2% over the identical interval a yr earlier, in line with unaudited monetary outcomes that had been posted in November.
