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Belarus Introduces Special Electricity Tariff for Miners
Crypto miners are now being classified in the same category as data centers.
Belarus has classified crypto miners in the same electricity-tariff grouping as data centers, according to a directive jointly issued by the Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Anti-Monopoly.
- The directive, issued Sept. 27 and made public on Thursday, adds two groups of customers to the previous rankings.
- One of those groups is: “Organizations processing data, providing services for information storage and related activities, including mining and data centers.”
- The group is further divided into five sub-groups, depending on how much electricity they use, from 25 million kilowatt hours to 500 million kWh this year.
- The directive does not provide prices for electricity, which are defined by other regulating documents.
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Anna Baydakova
Anna writes about blockchain projects and regulation with a special focus on Eastern Europe and Russia. She is especially excited about stories on privacy, cybercrime, sanctions policies and censorship resistance of decentralized technologies. She graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University and the Higher School of Economics in Russia and got her Master's degree at Columbia Journalism School in New York City. She joined CoinDesk after years of writing for various Russian media, including the leading political outlet Novaya Gazeta. Anna owns BTC and an NFT of sentimental value.
