Kazakhstan became the second largest crypto mining country in the world with a vast mine containing 50,000 computers in the desert near the northern city of Ekibastuz. People work their 12 hours a day for 15 days in a row they do not leave the site so just they could keep the mine running around the clock.
But, the large amount of mining put a big pressure to the energy consumption of the country and For five days the Kazakh crypto-mines could not connect to the internet, causing crypto-currency transactions across the world to slow down.
Remember the news about Kazakhstan's massive protests? That was almost when the internet shutdown hit the world’s second-biggest bitcoin mining hub.
Miners moved to Kazakhstan after mining was banned in China - because of the following and really logical reasons:
1. It was relatively near
2. The country is also a major energy producer.
