
Miners should pay more for power than households, Russia says
Russia’s energy minister has proposed changes that could see block reward miners pay more for electricity than households as the industry grows rapidly.
Russia’s energy minister has proposed changes that could see block reward miners pay more for electricity than households as the industry grows rapidly.
An unidentified client for BitRiver has recently shipped roughly 20,000 ASIC miners into the firm’s block reward mining facility in Siberia.
The wholly owned subsidiary of natural gas firm Gazprom is initially running mining operations from one of its oil drilling facilities in Siberia.
Minery CEO Ilya Bruman explains why Siberia is becoming a hot spot for cryptocurrency mining services.