Winter storm Fern has triggered widespread power outages across the US, prompting Bitcoin miners to curtail operations to ease grid strain.
Vince Quill
Vince Quill is a staff writer at Cointelegraph, covering cryptocurrencies, macroeconomics, and financial news. His reporting has also been syndicated by ZeroHedge and featured on the Coin Bureau YouTube channel. Prior to working as a financial journalist, he spent more than five years as a political opinion writer and has experience in real estate investing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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