由于地缘政治的不确定性和加密冬天，日本金融巨头 SBI Holdings 已部分终止在俄罗斯的加密货币开采。
彭博社称，SBI Holdings 以俄乌冲突和持续熊市等原因，暂停了俄罗斯西伯利亚加密货币矿产资源丰富地区的挖矿业务报告 星期四。
据报道，该公司发言人表示，在俄罗斯于 2 月 24 日开始对乌克兰进行军事干预后不久，这家日本在线经纪公司就关闭了西伯利亚的采矿业务。
终止导致 SBI 的加密资产业务在 202 年第二季度报告税前亏损 97 亿日元（7100 万美元）。因此，据报道，三井住友金融集团支持的集团录得 24 亿日元（1750 万美元）的净亏损十年来首次出现季度亏损。
有关 SBI 在西伯利亚暂停采矿的报告与 SBI 的加密采矿子公司 SBI Crypto 的公开采矿信息相对应。根据区块链浏览器 BTC.com 的数据，SBI Crypto 的挖矿哈希率暴跌 从 2 月中旬的每秒 5,600 petahashes (PH/S) 到 2022 年 8 月 18 日的 3,300 PH/S，增长了约 40%。
SBI Crypto 的六个月挖矿哈希率。资料来源：BTC.com
据彭博社报道，在关闭部分西伯利亚采矿业务后，据报道，SBI 仍在俄罗斯开展一些采矿活动。据报道，SBI 的首席财务官 Hideyuki Katsuchi 本周早些时候披露了该公司出售加密采矿硬件并完全退出该国的计划。
据报道，SBI 发言人表示，SBI 尚未决定何时完成从西伯利亚撤军。该公司在俄罗斯没有其他加密业务，并计划继续运营其位于莫斯科的商业银行部门 SBI Bank。
有关的：俄罗斯似乎准备用火炬气开采比特币
正如之前报道的那样，俄罗斯去年成为世界上最大的加密货币挖矿国之一，成为第三大 BTC 哈希率生产者 仅次于美国和哈萨克斯坦。该国迅速失去了其哈希率领导地位，因为中国重回前三矿业大国 2022 年初，由于地缘政治的不确定性，许多矿工选择避免在俄罗斯开展业务。
2022年4月，美国财政部对 BitRiver 实施制裁 ，俄罗斯最大的加密数据中心提供商参与加密采矿设备的主要进口 来自其他国家。 Compass Mining 等一些美国矿业公司随后试图清算西伯利亚价值 3000 万美元的加密采矿硬件，以避免制裁。
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