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Winter storm Fern is currently sweeping across the United States and has already left 1 million residents without electrical power.<\/p>\n
The hashrate of Foundry USA, a digital asset advisory firm with the world\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cBitcoin hashrate on Foundry USA 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,\u201d according to TheMinerMag<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n FoundryUSA still commands about 198 (EH\/s) of hashing power, accounting for about 23% of the global mining pool hashrate, data<\/a> from Hashrate Index shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n