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In Malaysia, due to excessive load on local power grids, the country's authorities began to look for crypto farms that illegally connect to power. The police, together with the local energy company TNB, conduct special raids during which they detain miners and destroy equipment.
The hunt for unlicensed mining farms continues in Kazakhstan. Law enforcement officers discovered another large Bitcoin mining center in Shymkent.
Intel said it is developing a chip designed specifically for cryptomining, which will be released by the end of the year.
Monero's network mining pool, MineXMR, currently controls 44% of the cryptocurrency's hash rate, which some consider a risk to network security.
The energy crisis in Kazakhstan forced the authorities to turn off electricity to mining centers until early February.
Today, mining difficulty has increased by 9%, setting a new record.
Regulators are concerned about the negative impact of mining on the environment.
The largest chip manufacturer Intel is entering the cryptomining market with a new revolutionary chip.
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