Foundry USA hashrate down 60% since Friday amid deadly storm: Report

Winter storm Fern is currently sweeping across the United States and has already left 1 million residents without electrical power.

The hashrate of FoundryUSA, a digital asset advisory firm with the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool, has curtailed its hashrate by about 60% since Friday in response to the severe winter storm impacting large swaths of the United States.

“Bitcoin hashrate on FoundryUSA alone is down by nearly 200 exahashes per second (EH/s), or 60%, since Friday amid continued curtailment. Temporary block production has slowed down to 12 minutes,” according to TheMinerMag. 

FoundryUSA still commands about 198 (EH/s) of hashing power, accounting for about 23% of the global mining pool hashrate, data from Hashrate Index shows. 

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