The Council of the Mc-Dauwell County of North Carolina voted to ban cryptocurrency mining – Bits Media

Council of Commissioners, Local parliament of MacDowell County, Southern District of North Carolina, unanimously approved the extension of the moratorium on mining digital assets until May 2024 of the year.

On the eve of the members of the Commission of the Council of Authorized County Mc-Dowell We held a public hearing about the advisability of extending a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining. According to the participants in the hearings, Mining companies consume too significant for a small district the resources of electricity and water. Maintaining the work of servers and their cooling is damaged by ecology, and also violates climatic norms, Parliamentarians are indignant.

A temporary two -month moratorium on mining activity in the district was introduced in May of this year. In accordance with the new decision of the Council of the Commissioners, the validity will be extended until May 2024 of the year. Thus, the Council expressed support for the goals of climate improvement, Previously voiced by the Governor of North Carolina Roem Cooper (Roy Cooper).

A similar decision on the introduction of a moratorium on mining cryptocurrencies has previously been adopted
The authorities of the Bankob district, Only only one year.