{"id":48133,"date":"2021-08-23T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48133"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:43:48","slug":"iran-sets-date-to-lift-cryptocurrency-mining-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/iran-sets-date-to-lift-cryptocurrency-mining-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sets date to lift cryptocurrency mining restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 22, 2021, Iran will lift the ban on digital asset mining, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iran-imposes-a-full-ban-on-cryptocurrency-mining-until-september\">introduced in late spring<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/business-and-markets\/109873\/authorized-cryptominers-to-resume-operation-in-autumn\">Financial Tribune<\/a>, citing the state energy holding company Tavanir, reports.<\/p>\n<p>There, they expect energy consumption in the country to fall by the end of summer. This will create conditions for legal miners to operate, said the company representative Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iran-issues-30-mining-licenses-to-mining-companies\">the Iranian Ministry of Industry issued 30 licenses<\/a> to companies involved in cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iran-shuts-down-1620-illegal-mining-farms\">authorities closed<\/a> 1,620 illegal mining centers, which together consumed 250 MW of power.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-iran-seizes-7000-cryptocurrency-mining-devices\">sources reported the seizure of 7,000 devices<\/a> for cryptocurrency mining at an abandoned factory in western Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts from Elliptic estimate that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/study-iran-bypasses-sanctions-through-bitcoin-mining\">Iran accounts for 4.5% of all Bitcoin mining<\/a>. Digital assets allow the country to bypass sanctions and purchase imported goods.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 22, 2021, Iran will lift the ban on digital asset mining, introduced in late spring. Financial Tribune reports citing the state energy holding company Tavanir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,840],"class_list":["post-48133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-iran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48135,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48133\/revisions\/48135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}