Federal Energy Agencies’ Unwillingness to Act on White House’s Crypto Mining ...
Jared Huffman, a United States lawmaker who advocates for increased scrutiny of crypto-mining entities, has reportedly chastised U.S. energy agencies that he accuses of failing to act on the White House’s call on them to do “reliability assessments of current and projected crypto-asset mining operations on electricity system reliability and adequacy.” However, a commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Allison Clements, insists crypto mining should not be singled out from grid studies. Agencies Reviewing White House Recommendations Jared Huffman, a....
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Russian Official Proposes Regional Energy Quotas for Crypto Miners
Cryptocurrency mining needs to be regulated soon, Evgeniy Grabchak insisted during Russia’s first national conference of legal bitcoin miners, held recently in Irkutsk. The Siberian oblast,....
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