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The article highlights how extreme grid instability forces adaptation, which indirectly reinforces the value proposition of decentralized, energy-resilient systems like blockchain. For crypto miners, South Africa's routine outages serve as a real-world stress test for off-grid solutions (solar, battery storage) that are increasingly relevant globally as energy costs rise. This also feeds into the broader trend of mining migrating to regions with cheap, unstable power—a double-edged sword for network security.

Nature publishes an article describing how South African research laboratories routinely cope with prolonged power outages due to grid instability.