China’s crypto miners make hard choices to meet climate goals
With Inner Mongolia banning crypto-mining and Xinjiang expected to soon follow, China’s crypto miners are turning to green energy or moving overseas.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency miner – a mining computer. Close-up on several GPU
Once a popular crypto-mining hotspot in China, Inner Mongolia has issued a crypto-mining ban that will take effect tomorrow, leaving crypto miners just one more day to comply with the order to shut down their business or move all their mining rigs out of the province.
Inner Mongolia’s ban is just one of many actions supporting Beijing’s directive to suppress the country’s crypto-mining activities, which is regarded as a highly polluting but low-return industry in regions like Inner Mongolia, where the mining is run on coal-powered electricity. Inner Mongolia’s crypto-mining ban is being enacted to help China achieve its ambitious goals to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2060.