Argentinian Government Raises Energy Costs Almost 4x for Cryptocurrency Miners
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Argentinian Government Raises Energy Costs Almost 4x for Cryptocurrency Miners

THELOGICALINDIAN - The Activity Secretary of Argentina alone ability subsidies for cryptocurrency miners adopting the amount of activity to about 4x what the miners were advantageous afore The admeasurement affects barter of the broad ability bazaar in the Tierra del Fuego arena one of the ambit added conspicuously active by miners in the country due to its specific altitude characteristics

Argentina Eliminates Subsidies for Cryptocurrency Mining

The government of Argentina has alone the subsidies that activated to ability acclimated by cryptocurrency miners. This is the accommodation that the Energy Secretary of the country took apropos cryptocurrency mining, and according to the new 40/2022 resolution, appear and fabricated official on February 1st, miners will now pay about four times what they did before.

The new amount of activity for miners in Ushuaia and the Rio Grande will be 5,000 ARS (or $47.50) per MW/H. Before this resolution was published, these aforementioned miners were advantageous about 1,764 ARS (or $16.76) per MW/h. The acumen abaft the change is explained in the resolution, which declares:

The resolution affects miners amid in the Tierra del Fuego province, area best miners are amid in Argentina due to the algid altitude that allows the enactment of mining farms after accelerated cooling capabilities.

Cammesa Faces a Challenge

Cammesa, which is the activity banker aggregation of Argentina, faces a claiming aggravating to analyze which sources are application the activity supplied for cryptocurrency mining purposes. During inquiries agitated out aftermost year, the aggregation managed to analyze two cryptocurrency mining accessories in the zone. About this finding, a antecedent accustomed with the amount told bounded bi-weekly La Nacion:

While there is no official abstracts on the subject, bounded activity companies assume to all accede on one thing: added and added bodies and companies are mining cryptocurrencies due to the low amount of activity that is subsidized at about 70% by the state.

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