Mississippi Senate approved a bill on the protection of miner rights – Bits Media

Senate Mississippi approved a bill entitled "The right to prey", represented by Senator Josh Harkins (Josh Harkins) and aimed at protecting the rights of miners in the state.

The bill allows individuals to launch nodes for the extraction of cryptocurrency in home, and also recognizes the potential of mining to strengthen the economy and stabilize the state power system. In the case of approval by the House of State Representatives, The bill will prohibit the discrimination of miners in electricity tariffs.

At that time, As in a number of US states there has been a negative trend in limiting the activities of mining companies under the pretext of applying environmental damage to them, Mississippi lawmakers strive to take advantage of the adoption of bitcoin and its integration in their energy networks.

Not only Mississippi considers Bitcoin mining as a productive form of entrepreneurship. for instance, Senator Arizona from the Republican Party Wendy Rogers (Wendy Rogers) invited lawmakers to amend, giving bitcoin the status of a legal payment fund on the territory of the state.