Final 12 months, miners struggled to purchase sufficient rigs. Producers couldn’t fulfill orders quick sufficient. Now, Matt Schultz, government chairman of bitcoin miner CleanSpark (CLSK), figures 250,000 to 500,000 mining rigs are nonetheless sealed up in packing containers within the U.S. alone, primarily based on his conversations with analysts. Ethan Vera, chief working officer of mining providers agency Luxor Applied sciences, put the quantity at 276,000 worldwide in September.