Russia’s central bank to prohibit miners from selling digital assets to Russians
The Bank of Russia adopted a negative stance towards the sale of virtual currencies to Russian citizens under the draft law for mining regulation.
The Bank of Russia adopted a negative stance towards the sale of virtual currencies to Russian citizens under the draft law for mining regulation.
A local environmental group criticized the discounts and urged the state to reconsider, saying Kentuckians will be left stuck with the bill for the BTC miners.
Only 38 out of 80 lawmakers voted to proceed with the bill, and out of the number, nine lawmakers voted against it, and the rest were either absent or voted blank.
ORNL notes that DLT could solve the existential threats plaguing the US' energy grid, as blockchain creates multiple hash copies, triggering an alert if nodes have inconsistent data.
Hydro-Quebec’s Electricity Supply Plan 2023-2032 report warns that the city’s electricity consumption could spike by an additional 25 TWh in the next 10 years.
YPF Luz said that its role would be to supply energy to the unnamed mining giant, and had begun building a 1 megawatt (MW) plant in the heat of Vaca Muerta.
The province has been cracking down on block reward miners for the past year and issued the warning amid mega data center construction in Western China.
If proof-of-work distributes objective consensus to miners outside of the network, proof-of-stake consolidates power to a subjective, in-network minority.
Triall's latest announcement highlights how useful blockchain technology can be in processing and timestamping immutable data records to benefit areas like public health.
The president has vetoed the bill, which sought to recognize mining and treat it like an industrial activity with its power tariff 15% above the household tariff.
The United States Committee on Energy and Commerce recently sent letters to four digital currency miners aiming to look for more information on PoW mining and its impact on the environment.
BSV Blockchain’s Public Policy Director Bryan Daugherty sees potential harm in the growth of scalable blockchain enterprises due to policymakers acting hastily in creating bills and amendments to address it.