Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 2 months ago
US EIA Starts Requiring Energy Consumption Data From Cryptocurrency Miners – Mining Bitcoin News& & Bitcoin.com News
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 months ago
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistics agency of the U.S. Energy Department, has sent letters to cryptocurrency miners requiring data related to energy consumption and configuration of their mining sites. According to one of t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
In Izhevsk, Russia, a 23-year-old bitcoin miner was forcefully abducted from his residence as kidnappers demanded a ransom of 15 million rubles ($166,000).
23-Year-Old Russian Bitcoin Miner Kidnapped for Ransom
On Dec. 25, in a rapid sequence of eve...
by COINS NEWS - 9 months ago
Bitcoin will enter its fourth halving in April 2024, a process that will halve the rewards for mining new blocks. This event, which happens every four years, is seen as a catalyst in the rise in the price of Bitcoin as it reduces the supply of...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The bill would legalize home digital asset mining and the operation of mining businesses in areas zoned for industrial use, and prohibit the Public Service Commission from imposing discri...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Demand for Cryptocurrency Miners Rises in Russia Amid Low Prices of Hardware – Mining Bitcoin News& & Bitcoin News
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Russia’s market for specialized crypto mining equipment has been seeing high demand over the past couple of months, with buyers attracted by the low price tags. Russian experts also predict an increase in the supply of used coin minting hardwa...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Crypto Crisis Latest: What's Happening With Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, Cryptocurrency Miners and Bitcoin Prices& & The Wall Street Journal
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
The Norwegian government is reviewing a proposal to abolish the policy of preferential tax treatment for data centers mining cryptocurrency with cheaper electricity. The executive power in Oslo says conditions have changed and the country needs the e...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Norway Prepares to Reverse Electricity Tax Cut for Cryptocurrency Miners – Mining Bitcoin News& & Bitcoin News
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Russia is preparing to provide Kazakhstan with additional energy needed to operate crypto mining farms in the Central Asian nation. New arrangements will allow Kazakhstan’s miners to buy electricity directly from the Russian power generation a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Authorities in Uzbekistan have drafted and put forward for public consultations a set of rules for crypto miners operating in the country. Companies that want to mint digital currencies will have to register with the government and use renewable ener...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The government of Kazakhstan has revised the registration requirements for persons and companies involved in crypto mining. The updated regulations come amid an ongoing clampdown on the industry in the Central Asian nation, where the influx of miners...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Energy Secretary of Argentina eliminated power subsidies for cryptocurrency miners, raising the cost of energy to almost 4x what the miners were paying before. The measure affects customers of the wholesale power market in the Tierra del Fuego pr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Crypto farms in Kazakhstan will remain unplugged until Feb. 7, as the local utility has extended power cuts for miners. The company points to ongoing difficulties with electricity supply as the main reason for the measure, which was supposed to expir...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The government in Abkhazia has extended an order prohibiting access to internet sites used by cryptocurrency miners. The measure is part of a wider ban on activities related to the extraction of digital coins that also limits the use of electricity a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The government of Kyrgyzstan has recently revised its electricity tariffs for various groups of consumers. Authorities in Bishkek have raised the rates at which crypto mining businesses buy power citing the energy-intensive nature of the coin minting...