{"id":60023,"date":"2022-04-13T08:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60023"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:06:31","slug":"russian-ministry-of-economic-development-proposes-electricity-limits-for-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-ministry-of-economic-development-proposes-electricity-limits-for-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Ministry of Economic Development proposes electricity limits for miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has sent to the Finance Ministry proposals on regulating cryptocurrencies and mining, writes <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/business\/news\/2022\/04\/12\/17559572.shtml\\\">\u00ab\u0413\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0442\u0430.R\u0443\u00bb<\/a> citing the ministry&#8217;s press service.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry proposed setting an electricity usage threshold for individual miners. Details of the calculation are not yet developed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Economic Development also proposed connecting mining farms to energy sources at reduced tariffs. According to ministry representatives, such tariffs should apply regardless of the connection point.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry proposed allowing cryptocurrency mining in regions with a persistent electricity surplus \u2014 Irkutsk, Murmansk, and Novosibirsk Oblasts, as well as the Khabarovsk and Krasnoyarsk krais, and the Republic of Khakassia.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, in the Ministry of Energy proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/energy-ministry-proposes-regional-quotas-for-mining\">to introduce regional quotas for mining<\/a>, while the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/minpromtorg-and-minstroy-propose-an-experimental-legal-regime-for-mining\">to establish an experimental legal regime<\/a> for cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the State Duma committee on the financial markets, Anatoly Aksakov, believes that mining in Russia can <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aksakov-proposes-legalising-mining-only-for-legal-entities\">be allowed only for legal entities<\/a>, whereas the Finance Ministry speaks of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/finance-ministry-says-ban-on-household-crypto-mining-makes-little-sense\">futility of banning household mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has sent to the Finance Ministry proposals on regulating cryptocurrencies and mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60024,"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":[1451,1137],"class_list":["post-60023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-regulation-in-russia","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60023","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=60023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60025,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60023\/revisions\/60025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}