A large mining farm burned down in China

In China, a fire broke out at one of the largest mining farms on September 30, destroying equipment worth $ 10 million, writes CoinTelegraph.

• the fire on Twitter. was the first to report Marshall Long, one of the first bitcoin miners,

https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1178706886750691329

• According to Long, the mining center of the company Innosilicon, which manufactures equipment for the production of cryptocurrency, was on fire. There were no comments from the company at the time of publication of the note.
• On the same day that the fire broke out, the bitcoin hashrate fell by 5%. The difficulty of mining cryptocurrency depends on the hashrate : the lower this indicator, the more time you need to spend on finding new blocks in the chain.
• According to Coindesk, the bitcoin exchange rate after the news about the fire at the mining farm began to grow: by 15:00 Moscow time on October 1, one bitcoin cost $8,407 against $8,013 at 16:00 Moscow time on September 30.