The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Russia agreed on cryptocurrency mining – Bits Media

The bill on the extraction of digital assets agreed by the regulators in the near future will be submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

The head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov at the Kazan Didgital Week forum stated, that the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance of Russia came to general decision on the draft law on cryptocurrency mining:

“By mining we are 100% Deal, In the near future, the bill will appear in our State Duma, and, respectively, We will work, To accept it faster ".

The chairman of the Duma committee himself believes, that it is advisable to lead digital assets in the regions, Where there is more electricity, what is needed:

"There, where there is a shortage of energy, from my point of view, Mining should be prohibited, And let them earn in the energy -watering regions ".

Last week, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the departments, Including the Ministry of Finance, CB RF, Rosfinmonitoring, Federal Tax Service and FSB, to 19 December to develop a coordinated position on mining cryptocurrencies and digital assets. On the same day, Rakib created a working group to develop a standard for mining energy efficiency.

In July, Intelion Data Systems reported, that the most popular Russian regions for mining in 2021 The year was Moscow, Moscow region, Karelia, Buryatia, And also Sverdlovsk, Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Khakassia.