The United States, the new eldorado of bitcoin "miners"

Every time bitcoin hits a new all-time high, cryptocurrency “miners” rub their hands a little more.

It is they, armed with very powerful computers, who ensure the security of transactions on the decentralized network, by solving increasingly complex mathematical equations.

The payoff is the creation of new bitcoins.

Their level of remuneration rises - or falls - therefore with the level of the currency price.

As of Wednesday, it was worth nearly $ 67,000.

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The industry in this flourishing sector has experienced a total upheaval since the beginning of the year, when China brutally banned this activity from its territory, officially for environmental reasons.

While in October 2020, the country still concentrated more than two-thirds of global mining capacity, its share fell to zero in July 2021, according to a recent study by the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, which is a benchmark in the sector.

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