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Flooding Threatens China’s Bitcoin Miners, Chinese Billionaire Says 'Three Gorges Dam Collapse Imminent'
Bitcoin News ^ | January 12, 2021 | Staff

Posted on 01/12/2021 2:49:28 AM PST by Norski

This week cryptocurrency enthusiasts are still focused on the severe flooding in China during the 2020 monsoon season. The flooding has already displaced millions of Chinese citizens and skeptics are concerned about the vast number of bitcoin miners located in the Sichuan province.

The landlocked province in Southwest China, Sichuan is located upstream of the Three Gorges Dam. During the last two months, the 2020 monsoon season ravaged the region.

Reports note that by the end of June, flooding from the rainy season has displaced 744,000 Chinese residents stemming from 26 provinces. The latest reports highlight that 54 million citizens from China have been affected by the floods and 41,000 homes have collapsed to-date.

Estimates show that roughly 50% of the world’s bitcoin miners are located in China and a deep concentration of miners are located in the Sichuan province. Last year, Coinshares reported the concentration in China was around 64%.. . "

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bitcoin.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; cryptocurrency; flood; flooding; threegorgesdam; yangtze; yangtzeriver
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To: jmacusa

Ah. Yes. Well, we might pray that the Chinese all become Christians. Most of them are pawns of their rulers, the CCCP, unfortunately.

Candidly, understand and fight against the same thought and feeling.


41 posted on 01/12/2021 5:11:15 AM PST by Norski
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To: Norski

“Sichuan is located upstream of the Three Gorges Dam. “

Better then being downstream!


42 posted on 01/12/2021 5:13:00 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Norski

Christians are capable of evil too. China is a reprobate nation.


43 posted on 01/12/2021 5:17:53 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa

Not entirely:

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Open Doors: Project Pearl - 25th Anniversary of Delivering 1 Million Bibles to China
24 June 2006 | 8:32 PM
Open Doors’ Project Pearl – the clandestine delivery of one million Chinese Bibles – celebrated its 25th anniversary on 18 June. Project Pearl was described by Time magazine’s Beijing bureau chief as one of the most unusual and successful smuggling operations of the 20th century. Time called it “the largest operation of its kind in the history of China” in their 19 October 1981 article, ‘Risky Rendezvous in Swatow’.

|PIC1|That evening in 1981, a 97-foot tugboat named Michael lumbered along at the sleepy speed of three knots an hour, towing the semi-submersible, 137-foot barge, Gabriella, loaded with 232 waterproof, poly-wrapped, one-ton packages containing a million Chinese Bibles.

The 20 crew members on board Michael were from Australia, Canada, Holland, New Zealand, the Philippines, the UK and the US.

By nine o’clock on that historic night, Michael approached the beach near Swatow, China (now called Shantou), weaving through a maze of anchored, Chinese navy ships in the darkness near the port city as thousands of local Christians waited patiently on the shore.

The off-loaded, floating Bible packages were towed to the beach by three small, rubber boats. The Chinese believers waded out into the water – some up to their necks – and pulled the packaged blocks up onto the beach, cut them open with shears, and handed the 45-pound cardboard boxes of Bibles to one another up across the sand and into the tree-line of the cove.

Two hours later, Michael and Gabriella and their crews left, with the one million Bibles in the care of Chinese believers who promised to circulate them across the entire country. In some cases, that process took five years, and a number of believers paid dearly for it. For them, each Bible was indeed a ‘pearl of great price’ referring to Matthew 13:44, from which the project was named.

Much controversy and disinformation immediately followed the delivery. Some ministries – eg China’s official Protestant Three-self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) – still claim the Bibles were thrown overboard in bags by the crew, who were forced by authorities to leave the scene.

Interestingly, there are stories of “wet” Bibles and “perfumed” Bibles from Project Pearl that continue to be shared to this day.

Wet Bibles

|PIC2|Some of the boxes of Bibles did get wet during the off-loading procedure. Additionally, a night patrol of Chinese police discovered some of the boxes of Bibles stashed under the trees, still awaiting transfer to a safe storage facility. The police tried unsuccessfully to burn the Bibles and then, in frustration, threw them into the water.

The next morning, fishermen plucked the floating volumes out of the sea and put them onto the roofs of their homes to dry. Later, they sold them to Christians in the area.

One well-known Chinese Christian leader acknowledged receiving “wet” Bibles from Project Pearl: in his book The Heavenly Man, Brother Yun sent a personal message via a friend that stated, “A big ‘thank you’ to Brother David and team who risked their lives for Project Pearl. And thank you so much for your great concern and love for the house church in China.”

Perfumed Bibles

Peter Xu, the leader of the Born-again Movement – one of the largest house-church networks in China – visited the American office of Open Doors three years ago. When he saw a Project Pearl Bible on a shelf there, he animatedly shared his Project Pearl experience.

After the delivery, Bibles were stored in depositories in southern China, Peter Xu sent three men every month to the depository contacts to bring back a thousand Bibles per trip for his growing house-church movement. One month, the three men were discovered with their Bible-load by the local police. The police threw the thousand Project Pearl Bibles into the cesspool of the public latrine and jailed the three men for the weekend.

On Monday, they were released and commanded to go straight home and never return. But instead, they waited inside the latrine until dark, then climbed down into the filthy cesspool of human waste and carefully retrieved each of the foul-smelling books. They rinsed them off under the local tap and carried them home. There, they dried them out, sprayed them with perfume and circulated them throughout the network. Such was the hunger for every copy of God’s Word.

The 20 crew-members of Project Pearl have been in touch with each other as the anniversary approaches. Ten are still involved in their own significant, full-time ministry in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.

Over the past 25 years, Open Doors has received many documented stories – often from unusual places and situations – of the impact of Project Pearl Bibles on the fast-growing church in China. They have been in use in virtually every province of the PRC.

Project Pearl also had an impact on the printing of Bibles inside China, which continues today. Shortly after the project was completed, China’s Three Self Patriotic Movement announced the first official printing of Bibles inside the country. In his book, Jesus in Beijing, noted author and China watcher David Aikman wrote, “[Project] Pearl had a major, long-term impact on the overall availability of Bibles in China.”

But far more important are the personal evaluations from Chinese believers: “These gifts were more precious than gold!”

Open Doors
www.opendoorsuk.org


44 posted on 01/12/2021 5:22:38 AM PST by Norski
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To: Norski

Sorry FRiend, no sale. Peace of the Lord be with you.


45 posted on 01/12/2021 5:48:31 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa

Very well. Thank you.


46 posted on 01/12/2021 6:22:03 AM PST by Norski
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To: Norski

Located upstream of the dam?


47 posted on 01/12/2021 6:27:03 AM PST by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: jetson

Do not know.


48 posted on 01/12/2021 6:37:03 AM PST by Norski
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To: Norski

exactly. just look what imaginary votes did for Biden


49 posted on 01/12/2021 11:18:47 AM PST by spudville
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To: Norski

Any information on Three Gorges Dam flooding welcome - original reason for posting on bitcoin . . .

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

paul furber (BDA) was posting updates on 3GD until he got cancelled this week

haven’t heard where to find them now


50 posted on 01/12/2021 12:19:51 PM PST by thinden
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To: Captain7seas

Yes, I agree.

Or have my access cut off because some ahole one day decides i’m not a star bellied Sneetch. (H/T to Dr. Seuss)

I may do electronic purchases and pay bills online but I know I can withdraw hard cash (in limited amounts) if I want to liquidate. I do screenshots of accounts regularly and should print them out..to protest if somehow those accounts were to be hacked or some other error. I don’t think bitcoin would give me a digital leg to stand on..


51 posted on 01/12/2021 12:37:52 PM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: Norski
I have been following this dams slow demise since last spring.
It should have blown apart months ago its in such bad shape, there are thousands of welds that have broken, it has thousands of cracks in the substandard concrete used, it leaks underneath the cracks, unusually strong currents have underminded the stability of the bottom, earthquakes north of the dam have underminded its integrity, it moves from time to time the top has been bending for almost a year. It's a miracle its still standing.
52 posted on 01/12/2021 4:28:37 PM PST by rodguy911 ((FreeRepublic home of the free because of the Brave---Where we go One))
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To: rodguy911

Fascinating. Sounds as though it is holding by divine intervention.


53 posted on 01/12/2021 11:58:17 PM PST by Norski
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To: thinden

Do not know him, but he is apparently on Gab now. Have not accessed.


54 posted on 01/13/2021 12:00:56 AM PST by Norski
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To: Norski

I had trouble signing up for gab yesterday.

All those I’m notta robot thumbnail pix were too small & blurry for mature eyes.

I’ll try again today


55 posted on 01/13/2021 3:55:54 AM PST by thinden
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