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North Carolina Bitcoiners set up Hurricane search and rescue operation

The Bitcoiners will focus on the “overlooked” communities in western North Carolina that have received little to no state or federal support and remain cut off from life-saving supplies.

North Carolina’s local Bitcoin community is prepping a convoy of emergency room physicians, volunteers, and retired military personnel to provide critical assistance in the state’s mountain region following Hurricane Helene.

The operation will start on Oct. 4 from the Greensboro region, and the 12-man team will be equipped with six full-sized trucks, multiple utility task vehicles, four trailers, one horse and one mule, according to North Carolina Blockchain Association’s Head of Industry Affairs Dan Spuller in an Oct. 2 post on X.

Chainsaws and medical supplies will also be used to assist with clearing paths and searching for missing individuals.

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CleanSpark still to restore 165MW in aftermath of Hurricane Helene

The massive category 4 hurricane has killed at least 137 people, and many more are still missing — while millions of homes and businesses remain without power. 

United States Bitcoin mining firm CleanSpark says it is still working to turn the power back on across all its facilities in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene — which saw devastating flooding, power outages and widespread damage across several US states. 

The Bitcoin miner’s hashrate briefly fell from 28 exahashes per second to 10.5 EH/s when it was forced to shut down 365 MW at the southeast Georgia site shortly after the hurricane started on Sept. 27. 

However, CleanSpark has managed to turn 200 MW back online since then, increasing its current operating hash rate to 22 EH/s, CleanSpark’s CEO Zach Bradford noted in a Sept. 30 statement.

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