The revenue from bitcoin mining in Russia has increased 18 times between 2017 and 2021, according to a new report by computing hardware distributer Intelion Data Systems, quoted by RBC Crypto. During the period, the total grew from 7 billion rubles in first studied year (below $114 million, at current exchange rates) to 128 billion rubles in the last (over $2 billion).
According to the research, in the past eight months the bitcoin mining revenue has dropped to just over 57 billion rubles ($929 million), despite a fairly confident start to 2022. The second quarter of the year is actually considered by experts to be the worst in over a decade of observation.
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