Foundry USA’s hashrate plunged about 60%, pushing block times to as long as 14 minutes, yet bitcoin’s price and transaction fees barely moved.

https://bitcoinnews.com/p/fern-storm-bitcoin-hashrate-drops-miners-curtailment

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Isn't this a risk to tie so many miners to baseload capacity? Couldn't other miners not impacted by energy demands perform a 51% attack?

This stems from Winter Storm Fern!