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Crypto miners occupy nearly 2% of the cumulative consumption of electricity in Russia, as the exclusive estimate by the country’s government points out. The crypto mining industry’s power consumption proportion crossed the point where the agriculture sector of the country stands, indicating some recovery signs following the exclusion of Russia from the prominent 3 nations sharing the hash rates in the mining of BTC (Bitcoin).
Vasily Shpak, the industry, and trade’ Deputy Ministry in Russia called for bringing the industry of mining under the law’s purview in the time of the modern mining estimate. He stated that the spectators should know about the number of mining accounts related to the electricity generation’s overall map within the whole country. He told that up to 2%, which is above the electricity utilized by agriculture, is used by the crypto miners.
As per him, they can recognize crypto mining as an industrial operation or industry. Russia-based crypto mining comes within the gray area. Although it is not prohibited, it is unregulated either, creating hazards for the people who are involved in the respective industry. Apart from this, the deputy minister affirmed that following the regulation of the industry of crypto mining, it would step in the direction of additional energy-intensive ways.
The demands for the crypto-mining industry’s regulation are witnessed only days following the country’s legislators launched a modernized form of the bill dealing with crypto mining. The unique bill eliminated a couple of sub-sections, taking into account the mining operators’ responsibility to become a part of a special registry as well as a tax amnesty of 1 year for the entirety of the people having a registration.
In addition to this, Mikhail Mishustin (the Prime Minister as well as the trade’s deputy minister) has additionally asserted to look into the industry of crypto mining. He stated in April that they have the potential to talk about the issues related to mining, including data centers as well as the others related to infrastructure creation.
On the contrary, the central bank of Russia keeps on demanding a straightforward prohibition to be put on mining activities across the country. The proportion of the hash rate of Bitcoin mining within Russia plummeted to 4.55% behind the United States, China, and Kazakhstan, as specified by the unique report published on the behalf of the CBECI (Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index).
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