A group of lobbying the interests of miners was created in Washington – Bits Media

A new lobby group Digital Energy Council has been created in Washington (DEC), which will interact with regulators and legislators to promote the interests of cryptocurrency miners.

Founder and president of Dec Thomas Maps (Thomas Mapes) told, that the main goal organizations - dispel the wrong ideas about the extraction of cryptocurrencies from politicians. DEC includes mining and energy companies, Some of which have already become public. At the moment, the efforts of the Association for the promotion of the interests of miners will be concentrated exclusively on the United States.

Earlier, MAPS held the position of director of energy in the Digital Trade Chamber. Before that, he worked as the head of the Department of Foreign Relations in the US Department of Energy. Maps said, that already while working in the ministry, He began to consider mining companies an integral part of the energy ecosystem. Miners can use excess energy, which would be wasted - and this is one of the advantages of the industry, Corrected Maps.

“The extraction of digital assets intersects with energy at the federal level, Therefore, we are looking forward to the start of work with the leaders of these industries ", —
wrote the founder of Dec Twitter.

He added, that energy companies, Municipal enterprises and electricity suppliers are interested in the extraction of cryptocurrencies and study, how can they become participants in this industry. However, legislators have yet to understand its advantages, Since bills have recently appeared, directed against mining.

Maps cited an example of a 30%tax on digital assets mining, proposed in May by the administration of US President Joe Biden (Joe Biden). The proposal was received in connection with the report of the Office of the Scientific and Technical Policy of the White House (OSTP), according to which electricity consumption by American miners was 50 billion kW*h per year.

In June, President Baiden promised to close all the loopholes for participants in the crypto industry as part of a comprehensive economic strategy called “Bidenomics”.