China Mining Ban
China's 2021 mining ban relocated 46pp of hashrate, confirming the innovation flight prediction from export controls.
Impact Score
Score Reasoning
- Importance
- Peripheral empirical case study. Confirms innovation flight prediction but narrow in scope.
- Novelty
- Known event (China 2021 ban) used as natural experiment. CES framework adds interpretation but the result is essentially descriptive.
- Quality
- Clear empirical article with good structure. Links to Paper 6.