I use the Brave Browser on both my laptop and PC. As far as I used it , it feels exactly like I'm using Chrome.

On the reward side, this month I earned somewhere close to 4 BAT which is not bad considering there are a couple of alternatives that pay way less.

I never thought about it like that, I'll probably read more about how mining works in order to get a better picture of this. Thank you for the clarification!

I understand what you are saying, and I get that it's not really logical, but what effect would it have if it was directly caused by an energy shortage (where the plug could've been pulled immediately) instead of the ban declining the hash-rate in 2 months where miners had the possibility to relocate themselves?

I'm not saying this is the case, but I was just wondering if there was a relation between the BTC Mining costs in electricity and the power crisis in China. Hence why I posted this thread.

So i was wondering...

Could the Chinese mining ban be something done on purpose to prevent the BTC hash rate from dropping significantly?
(As far as I know the mining ban happened just a bit before the power crisis started in China).
It wouldn't be too crazy to think they banned mining on purpose to prevent a collapse in hash rate which would show that the chinese government cares about / is invested in BTC.)
These are just my thoughts but I'd like to hear what u guys think.

Could this be a possibility? Do you have arguments why this is absolutely NOT the reason?

So i was thinking...
The Binance card gives you a cashback in BNB whenever your purchase meets certain conditions. For example I received a cashback of about 40 cents when i bought a new TV.
So i was thinking... What if i would go buy a TV, receive my cash back in BNB, bring back the TV and do this over and over again. This would basically print me free money. Is there any system that prevents me from doing this? Is this even possible? I'm very curious as to how this is structured.

Please enlighten me.