08:31:16 China's crackdown earlier this year was a major hit to all PoW chains except Monero https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/r0/download/libera.chat/a309b73cec1c422f49696ce295284f203a3c55c8) 08:31:41 ugn wrong link 08:31:54 https://mobile.twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/1467041362780561412 10:12:49 I saw it a while ago. It's also an indirect proof that there are no secret ASICs mining RandomX because they would've been mining in China too. 10:13:14 right 10:14:08 and we can see that monero's hashrate during that time period was just increasing at the same rate as before and after. completely unaffected. 10:15:35 I'm a little surprised at China's decision. Before the crackdown they literally had their fingers around the throats of all of those blockchains 10:16:19 forcing them all to leave dissolved all their influence 10:18:07 I would have expected them to do something more clever, to exercise their power without destroying it 10:22:01 they had big problems with electricity generation and risked mass blackouts if they didn't force miners out 10:22:37 I thought most of the miners were using trapped hydro power 19:55:45 Governments again reveal themselves to 19:56:07 Be haphazard and brutish rather than clever and subtle 19:56:54 if clever and subtle then not so revealing