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De grandes fermes minières de crypto-monnaie refroidies par immersion pour extraire du Bitcoin dans le désert du Moyen-Orient

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A project to build two large-scale facilities for cryptocurrency mining is underway in the United Arab Emirates (Émirats arabes unis). The high-tech data centers will rely on a full immersion solution to cool the power-hungry miners as the desert climate renders air-cooled mining…

L’Iran ferme ses portes 8,000 Fermes illégales de minage de cryptomonnaies 3 Années

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Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures…

La police du Kosovo saisit des plates-formes minières cryptographiques aux Serbes

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Kosovo police have seized dozens of crypto mining devices from residents of a majority Serb region in the north of the country. Authorities in Pristina and Belgrade exchanged accusations over the move, which has the potential to raise tensions in the…

Un fonds d'investissement axé sur le minage de cryptomonnaies sera créé en Russie

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The establishment of Russia’s first mutual investment fund dedicated to financing cryptocurrency mining operations is underway. According to a report by the Russian press, it will be available to qualified investors and will finance the acquisition of coin minting equipment. Russian…

Former Cohasset High School Employee Accused of Stealing Thousands in Electricity to Mine Bitcoin in School Campus Crawlspace

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A former school assistant facilities director in Cohasset, Massachusetts, has been accused of operating a cryptocurrency mining operation inside a crawlspace at Cohasset High School. The Cohasset Police Department alleges that Nadeam Nahas stole nearly $18,000 in electricity to power the…

Le détaillant sud-africain Pick n Pay accepte désormais les paiements via BTC dans tous ses magasins

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Pick n Pay, one of South Africa’s leading retailers, reportedly now accepts bitcoin as payment at all its stores across the country. Using the bitcoin lightning network, Pick n Pay’s customers can now buy items such as groceries, airtime and electricity…

Iran Returns Seized Crypto Mining Equipment to Miners

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A government body responsible for state property in Iran has released some of the hardware seized from illegal crypto mining farms. Its top executive explained the agency was obliged to do that by courts in the Islamic Republic, where unlicensed miners…

Au milieu de la forte demande énergétique des mineurs, La Russie envisage de construire de nouvelles centrales électriques en Sibérie

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Growing electricity consumption in the crypto mining sector may require the construction of new power generation facilities in Siberia, the energy minister of Russia has acknowledged. Demand continues to increase in residential areas as well, after regional authorities abandoned a proposal…

Année difficile pour les mineurs de Bitcoin car moins de plates-formes minières BTC sont rentables aux prix actuels

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Bitcoin miners have had a challenging year as the network’s mining difficulty reached an all-time high and the spot market price of bitcoin dropped below the cost of production. Actuellement, with electricity costs at $0.07 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), only 18 application-specific…

Le sénateur du Massachusetts présente un projet de loi visant à obliger les mineurs de crypto à déclarer leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre

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En décembre. 8, 2022, trois politiciens démocrates du Massachusetts, Oregon, et la Californie ont dévoilé une législation visant à lutter contre “énergivore” opérations minières de cryptomonnaie. Le projet de loi présenté par le sénateur Ed Markey (D-MA) allègue que le minage de crypto “met à rude épreuve la grille” et l'industrie “sape les États-Unis….