Russia to Limit Cryptomining in Some Regions on Power Shortages

Bloomberg11-20 23:02

(Bloomberg) -- Russia restricted cryptocurrency mining in more than a dozen regions where the practice is concentrated amid concern over electricity shortages that are weighing on the nation’s economy...

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Dagestan’s power consumption jumped 26% over the past three years and is now leading to blackouts, he said in a statement on his Telegram channel.Siberia’s Irkutsk region and Dagestan in the Caucasus have some of the lowest electricity prices in the country. That creates favorable conditions for cryptomining, Moscow-based ACRA rating agency said in a November report.“Russia is facing power shortages over the next five to ten years,” said Ani Aslanyan, an analyst who runs a Telegram channel about cryptocurrencies. “The question is, does it makes sense to build new electricity capacity specifically for cryptominers?” Still, authorities are taking a subtle approach, she said. “They aren’t banning cryptomining outright, but rather creating conditions under which it becomes less attractive.”©2024 Bloomberg L.P.","kind":null,"is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.2","shortVersion":"4.29.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2484146243"}