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Kazakhstan internet shutdown blow to global Bitcoin mining
- Threeve303 5y agoCurious that they shut down the internet in response to the riots. It helps stop the crowd from organizing but maybe there is more going on that caused the mob to act in the first place... Besides the inflation and gas price issues mentioned.
- baybal2 5y agoMajor bitcoin miners in South Kazakhstan have private fibre to Kyrgyzstan, exactly for an eventuality like this. News were leaking out of the country through them when the internet was shutdown. They also are ones who have a lot of satcom gear, since they often need to repair their bootleg fibre in the middle of nowhere. It's also to not get detected. A few million dollars ISO container standing in the middle of nowhere will get appropriated in no time there invariably if it's mafia finds it, or the local KGB offshoot.
- zardo 5y agoDidn't the KGB stop existing 30 years ago?
- afrodc_ 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Committee_(Kazakhstan) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Committee_... > The NSC was created in accordance with a law passed by parliament in July 1992 which authorised the establishment of an agency to replace the KGB, the old national security apparatus of the Soviet Union. This would be the KGB offshoot. Belarus also has a KGB as do other post Soviet countries, I believe.