Bitcoin Hashrate Bombs 30% Following Bakkt Launch, Coincidence?

The total cumulative power of the computer systems mining the Bitcoin blockchain has plummeted by around 30 percent today. The sudden downtrend started just before the launch of the much anticipated Bakkt platform yesterday.
Although the timing of the sudden drop seems to suggest that it may have had something to do with Bakkt, there is evidence however that major Bitcoin mining operations based in Canada and Kyrgyzstan have suffered a power outages. However, the hashrate now appears to have ret