THELOGICALINDIAN - Authorities in Iran accept absitively to admittance ability bearing plants application renewable sources to advertise electricity to accountant cryptocurrency miners The move comes afterwards the government asked mining companies to append activities in adjustment to abstain winter blackouts
Crypto Miners in Iran to Mint Digital Coins Using Renewable Energy
Regulated companies mining cryptocurrency in Iran will accretion admission to blooming energy, bounded media reported. The Ministry of Activity in Tehran has adopted new rules acceptance plants breeding electricity from renewable sources to accumulation bread minting enterprises that accomplish aural the law.
“Legal miners can access into agreements with renewable ability plants at negotiable agreement and rates,” Mohammad Khodadadi, who active the Tavanir administration amenable for the mining industry, told the ISNA account agency. He additionally emphasized that the activity admiral will comedy a role in establishing the exact tariffs.
Tavanir, the Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company, is the country’s state-owned account that afresh ordered accustomed miners to unplug their equipment. The admeasurement is allotment of efforts to anticipate blackouts as activity appeal increases with bottomward temperatures.
The Ministry of Energy has been aggravating to abate the use of aqueous fuels for bearing back aftermost month, Tavanir’s agent Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi afresh told the state-run anchorperson IRIB. Shutting bottomward accountant crypto farms is amid a ambit of measures aimed at alienated electricity shortages this winter.
Iran legalized bitcoin mining in 2024 and alien a licensing administration for entities operating in the industry. Registered crypto farms are affairs electricity at higher, consign ante and abounding Iranian miners are alienated the binding allotment to booty advantage of subsidized domiciliary prices.
In May, then-President Hassan Rouhani announced a acting ban on crypto mining amidst growing appeal for electricity and bereft accumulation acquired by the abnormally hot acclimate and droughts. Authorized mining enterprises were additionally abhorrent for the shortages.
The country’s crypto association criticized the restrictions afterwards estimates adumbrated that acknowledged miners absorb alone about 300 megawatts daily, while underground crypto farms bake 10 times more. The ban was lifted in September back appeal for electricity decreased with acknowledgment weather.
Tavanir has been arise bottomward on actionable mining operations throughout the year. Iranian media appear in November that the account had confiscated over 220,000 mining machines and shut down about 6,000 crypto farms in altered regions of the Islamic Republic.
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