You are kidding me????

What does Eric Wall have to do with HRF?

I mean, this guy is a major Crypto promoter. You know, that giant network that China (of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong fame) runs and is using to undermine Western Liberal Democracy and the notion of Human Rights. This is the views that dominate that world:

https://www.inbitcoinwetrust.net/sorry-christine-lagarde-we-dont-need-your-digital-euro-we-already-have-bitcoin-5f37410b4c02

And...

At least 65% of BTC is mined in China…it’s the same or more for other PoW coins

https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/bitcoin-hash-rate-65-is-concentrated-in-china/https://cbeci.org/mining_maphttps://www.statista.com/statistics/1200477/bitcoin-mining-by-country/https://news.bitcoin.com/65-of-global-bitcoin-hashrate-concentrated-in-china/https://www.forbes.com/sites/youngjoseph/2019/12/12/new-report-shows-china-dominates-bitcoin-mining-is-this-a-sign-of-worry/?sh=7114ebdb42e1https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/https://decrypt.co/27879/you-can-now-watch-bitcoin-being-mined-around-the-worldhttps://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-wont-win-worldwide-adoption-because-china-controls-it-ripple-ceo/

This type of analysis below is what is often misused or just plain turned into misinformation. It talks about “nodes” which is a meaningless metric. Since PoW doesn’t care how many nodes there are….

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/02/27/3-countries-50-perecent-bitcoin-network/

Chinese citizens and the law

Regarding the law in China, you have to read closely and understand. The short of it is (as I state in my writing) Chinese citizens are prohibited from buying/selling/having an account on an exchange, but are permitted still to “own” crypto:

https://www.mondaq.com/china/fin-tech/944330/regulation-of-cryptocurrency-in-china

Rig Manufacturers:

https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36672/renewable-energy-not-as-prominent-in-cryptocurrency-mining-as-previously-claimed

NOTE: AMD and Bitfury have a tiny fraction of the market. All ICs in the Chinese rigs are Chinese designed and manufactured.

Chinese - ASICminer Co.

Chinese - Baikal Miner

Chinese - BitMain Technologies Holding Co.

Chinese - Canaan Inc.

Chinese - Cynosure Technologies Co. Ltd.

Chinese - Halong Mining

Chinese - INNOSILICON Technology Ltd.

Chinese - Shenzhen MicroBT Electronics Technology Co. Ltd.

Chinese - EBANG

Dutch (sort of) - Bitfury Group Ltd.

American - Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Market Share:

https://www.minerupdate.com/news/miner-insights/how-will-the-bitcoin-asic-manufacturer-market-evolve-in-2020

Rig ICs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmain

By 2018 it had become the world's largest designer of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips for bitcoin mining

https://investor.canaan-creative.com/corporate/company-profile

Canaan’s chief executive, Nangeng Zhang, founded the company in 2013. Together with his team, he invented and delivered one of the first cryptocurrency mining machines incorporating application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology. The company initially dedicated its research and development efforts to ASIC applications for Bitcoin mining and rapidly built up its know-how of ASIC design.

ETC.

Almost all Chinese mining operations are tied together on a Level0 network which speeds up chain replication but also gives the ability of Chinese miners to observe (at a minimum) regional transaction volumetrics.

bloXroute is a Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) that utilizes a global network of servers optimized for network performance. In other words, bloXroute allows the network to communicate fast.

Nodes access this network through open source Gateways and anyone can access it through the bloXroute public-API.

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