The growth of the popularity of the new cryptocurrency chiacoin can lead to a shortage of hard drives around the world, predicted analysts. This is reported by the WCCFTECH portal.
According to him, users in China began to massively buy hard drives and SDD drives, wheels from 4 to 18 terabytes are specially popular. So far, the country cannot trade Chiacoin, created by the founder of BitTorrent Bram Koen, however, miners have already begun to purchase devices for the future. Given the concentration of production in China, the shortage of drives will first affect the domestic market, and then reinfect on the external.
Earlier it was reported that because of the production of bitcoins, Beijing plans to reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere were threatened. 75 percent of world mining accounts for China. At the same time, last year, the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Si Jinspin said that the country is aimed at achieving the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and reaches carbon neutrality to the 2060th. But uncontrolled mining can disrupt these plans.