Cryptocurrencies are generated via a process known as crypto mining which consumes much electrical power. And higher energy consumption has consequently brought electrical power shortages in several regimes due to increased mining activities.
Quebec, a Canadian province, is of them facing similar problems. And now, the provisional energy supplier wants to cut power sources for miners to survive in the winter when the minus-degree temperature requires residents to use heaters and other electrical gadgets to survive.
In this regard, power managing firm Hydro Quebec, which controls, generates, and distributes electrical power across the Quebec province of Canada, filed a report to the energy board on November 1. The distributor in the report asked the government to allow the hydro-electrical power plant to limit the energy supply to crypto miners.
Pointing to the reason behind the need to reduce powers…
