By CCN.com: Canada aims to lure cryptocurrency miners by offering cheap electricity in Quebec. The city’s energy authority, Régie de l’énergie, has asked its largest power provider to set aside an additional 300 megawatts of discounted energy for new bitcoin mining projects. Until now, crypto mining has been fiercely concentrated in China. But as Beijing mulls an outright ban on bitcoin mining, the industry is flocking to Canada. Décision de la Régie de l'énergie entourant l'industrie des chaînes de blocs. Bonne nouvelle, car nous pourrons aller de l’avant avec un processus de sélection selon lequel un bloc de 300 MW
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